dentry = opendata->dentry;
if (d_really_is_negative(dentry)) {
- /* FIXME: Is this d_drop() ever needed? */
+ struct dentry *alias;
d_drop(dentry);
- dentry = d_add_unique(dentry, igrab(state->inode));
- if (dentry == NULL) {
- dentry = opendata->dentry;
- } else if (dentry != ctx->dentry) {
+ alias = d_exact_alias(dentry, state->inode);
+ if (!alias)
+ alias = d_splice_alias(igrab(state->inode), dentry);
+ /* d_splice_alias() can't fail here - it's a non-directory */
+ if (alias) {
dput(ctx->dentry);
- ctx->dentry = dget(dentry);
+ ctx->dentry = dentry = alias;
}
nfs_set_verifier(dentry,
nfs_save_change_attribute(d_inode(opendata->dir)));