Commit acc9cb3c authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro

untangling do_lookup() - eliminate a loop.

d_lookup() *will* fail after successful d_invalidate(), if we are
holding i_mutex all along.  IOW, we don't need to jump back to
l: - we know what path will be taken there and can do that (i.e.
d_alloc_and_lookup()) directly.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 37c17e1f
......@@ -1173,7 +1173,6 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
BUG_ON(nd->inode != dir);
mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex);
l:
dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
if (likely(!dentry)) {
dentry = d_alloc_and_lookup(parent, name, nd);
......@@ -1204,9 +1203,14 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
}
if (!d_invalidate(dentry)) {
dput(dentry);
dentry = NULL;
need_reval = 1;
goto l;
dentry = d_alloc_and_lookup(parent, name, nd);
if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
return PTR_ERR(dentry);
}
/* known good */
need_reval = 0;
status = 1;
}
}
mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
......
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