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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/kernfs/dir.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index ba581429bf7b..cfc3ce8b815a 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -1116,8 +1116,13 @@ static struct dentry *kernfs_iop_lookup(struct inode *dir, if (!inode) inode = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } - /* Needed only for negative dentry validation */ - if (!inode) + /* + * Needed for negative dentry validation. + * The negative dentry can be created in kernfs_iop_lookup() + * or transforms from positive dentry in dentry_unlink_inode() + * called from vfs_rmdir(). + */ + if (!IS_ERR(inode)) kernfs_set_rev(parent, dentry); up_read(&kernfs_rwsem); |