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[6/9] VFS/namei: enable RCU-walk when following symlinks.

Message ID 20150305052121.23906.85793.stgit@notabene.brown (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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NeilBrown March 5, 2015, 5:21 a.m. UTC 
Now that follow_link handles LOOKUP_RCU, we do not need to
'unlazy_walk' when a symlink is found.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
 fs/namei.c |   12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)



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diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 4ddbc1ef5726..11e6b2068c96 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1608,12 +1608,6 @@  static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
 		goto out_path_put;
 
 	if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) {
-		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
-			if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
-				err = -ECHILD;
-				goto out_err;
-			}
-		}
 		BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);
 		return 1;
 	}
@@ -3066,12 +3060,6 @@  finish_lookup:
 	}
 
 	if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, !symlink_ok)) {
-		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
-			if (unlikely(unlazy_walk(nd, path->dentry))) {
-				error = -ECHILD;
-				goto out;
-			}
-		}
 		BUG_ON(inode != path->dentry->d_inode);
 		return 1;
 	}