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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-07-02 13:39:09 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-07-02 13:39:09 +0100
commitd2f6409584e2c62ffad81690562330ff3bf4a458 (patch)
tree3bdfb97d0b51be2f7f414f2107e97603c1206abb /fs/namei.c
parente1b09eba2686eca94a3a188042b518df6044a3c1 (diff)
parent4a89a04f1ee21a7c1f4413f1ad7dcfac50ff9b63 (diff)
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Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 6e888dd..56e9f0f 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1577,19 +1577,35 @@ do_link:
*
* Simple function to lookup and return a dentry and create it
* if it doesn't exist. Is SMP-safe.
+ *
+ * Returns with nd->dentry->d_inode->i_sem locked.
*/
struct dentry *lookup_create(struct nameidata *nd, int is_dir)
{
- struct dentry *dentry;
+ struct dentry *dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
down(&nd->dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
- dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
+ /*
+ * Yucky last component or no last component at all?
+ * (foo/., foo/.., /////)
+ */
if (nd->last_type != LAST_NORM)
goto fail;
nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT;
+
+ /*
+ * Do the final lookup.
+ */
dentry = lookup_hash(&nd->last, nd->dentry);
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
goto fail;
+
+ /*
+ * Special case - lookup gave negative, but... we had foo/bar/
+ * From the vfs_mknod() POV we just have a negative dentry -
+ * all is fine. Let's be bastards - you had / on the end, you've
+ * been asking for (non-existent) directory. -ENOENT for you.
+ */
if (!is_dir && nd->last.name[nd->last.len] && !dentry->d_inode)
goto enoent;
return dentry;
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