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-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index bb7a2e0b959c..baab2c0d96ba 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1449,9 +1449,8 @@ static int follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
}
/*
- * This looks up the name in dcache, possibly revalidates the old dentry and
- * allocates a new one if not found or not valid. In the need_lookup argument
- * returns whether i_op->lookup is necessary.
+ * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry.
+ * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache.
*/
static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(const struct qstr *name,
struct dentry *dir,