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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-02-12 22:15:47 -0500 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2012-03-20 21:29:37 -0400 |
| commit | 32991ab305ace7017c62f8eecbe5eb36dc32e13b (patch) | |
| tree | 7a802091fa9f152f38577a4eeaa24937c4b4b2c9 | |
| parent | 318ceed088497d1ca839b1172518ac4cc7096b82 (diff) | |
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vfs: d_alloc_root() gone
all callers converted to d_make_root() by now
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dcache.h | 1 |
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index b4a3d765ff9..74acd961881 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -429,3 +429,9 @@ filemap_write_and_wait_range() so that all dirty pages are synced out properly. You must also keep in mind that ->fsync() is not called with i_mutex held anymore, so if you require i_mutex locking you must make sure to take it and release it yourself. + +-- +[mandatory] + d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code +misusing it. Replacement: d_make_root(inode). The difference is, +d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails. diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index bcbdb33fcc2..a78e145a435 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1443,30 +1443,6 @@ struct dentry *d_instantiate_unique(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode) EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_instantiate_unique); -/** - * d_alloc_root - allocate root dentry - * @root_inode: inode to allocate the root for - * - * Allocate a root ("/") dentry for the inode given. The inode is - * instantiated and returned. %NULL is returned if there is insufficient - * memory or the inode passed is %NULL. - */ - -struct dentry * d_alloc_root(struct inode * root_inode) -{ - struct dentry *res = NULL; - - if (root_inode) { - static const struct qstr name = { .name = "/", .len = 1 }; - - res = __d_alloc(root_inode->i_sb, &name); - if (res) - d_instantiate(res, root_inode); - } - return res; -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_alloc_root); - struct dentry *d_make_root(struct inode *root_inode) { struct dentry *res = NULL; diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index ff5f5256d17..7e11f141820 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ extern void shrink_dcache_for_umount(struct super_block *); extern int d_invalidate(struct dentry *); /* only used at mount-time */ -extern struct dentry * d_alloc_root(struct inode *); extern struct dentry * d_make_root(struct inode *); /* <clickety>-<click> the ramfs-type tree */ |