From 698934df8b45da2a06816ee2d7f9a9034e671e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:33:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk Where we have: if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) { type constructions in pathwalk we should be able to eliminate the check of d_inode and rely solely on the result of d_is_negative() or d_is_positive(). What we do have to take care to do is to read d_inode after calling a d_is_xxx() typecheck function to get the barriering right. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 76fb76a0818b..5a9291c31881 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, inode = path->dentry->d_inode; } err = -ENOENT; - if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry)) + if (d_is_negative(path->dentry)) goto out_path_put; if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) { @@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@ mountpoint_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path) mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); done: - if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) { + if (d_is_negative(dentry)) { error = -ENOENT; dput(dentry); goto out; @@ -3038,7 +3038,7 @@ retry_lookup: finish_lookup: /* we _can_ be in RCU mode here */ error = -ENOENT; - if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry)) { + if (d_is_negative(path->dentry)) { path_to_nameidata(path, nd); goto out; } -- 2.34.1