From: Trond Myklebust Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:42:59 +0000 (-0500) Subject: NFS: Sillyrename: in the case of a race, check aliases are really positive X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=609005c319bc6062b95ed82e132884ed7e22cdb9;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git NFS: Sillyrename: in the case of a race, check aliases are really positive In nfs_do_call_unlink() we check that we haven't raced, and that lookup() hasn't created an aliased dentry to our sillydeleted dentry. If somebody has deleted the file on the server and the lookup() resulted in a negative dentry, then ignore... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/unlink.c b/fs/nfs/unlink.c index c5fa6d8001f1..431981d0265f 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/unlink.c +++ b/fs/nfs/unlink.c @@ -130,13 +130,15 @@ static int nfs_do_call_unlink(struct dentry *parent, struct inode *dir, struct n alias = d_lookup(parent, &data->args.name); if (alias != NULL) { int ret = 0; + /* * Hey, we raced with lookup... See if we need to transfer * the sillyrename information to the aliased dentry. */ nfs_free_dname(data); spin_lock(&alias->d_lock); - if (!(alias->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) { + if (alias->d_inode != NULL && + !(alias->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) { alias->d_fsdata = data; alias->d_flags |= DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED; ret = 1;