VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:33:52 +0000 (17:33 +0000)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:05:29 +0000 (15:05 -0400)
commit698934df8b45da2a06816ee2d7f9a9034e671e62
tree054b19e810747a2ced5cce3f417dc6e74f816a7b
parent88e7fbd4a599375a08876e80a76d92e49fdea55c
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 <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/namei.c