From f374ed5fa8afed8590deaae5dc147422e0e1a6d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 01:34:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] do_last: kill a rudiment of old ->d_revalidate() workaround There used to be time when ->d_revalidate() couldn't return an error. So intents code had lookup_instantiate_filp() stash ERR_PTR(error) in nd->intent.open.filp and had it checked after lookup_hash(), to catch the otherwise silent failures. That had been introduced by commit 4af4c52f34606bdaab6930a845550c6fb02078a4. These days ->d_revalidate() can and does propagate errors back to callers explicitly, so this check isn't needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 441f1106de08..6972e761286b 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2183,11 +2183,6 @@ static struct file *do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path, path->dentry = dentry; path->mnt = nd->path.mnt; - if (IS_ERR(nd->intent.open.file)) { - error = PTR_ERR(nd->intent.open.file); - goto exit_mutex_unlock; - } - /* Negative dentry, just create the file */ if (!dentry->d_inode) { int mode = op->mode; -- 2.34.1