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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2025-12-13 12:36:15 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2025-12-13 22:28:53 -0500
commit3010f06c52aa7da51493df59303ea733a614597b (patch)
treef0105bcdc4b0823da579e3e877dd2f0e5250b838
parent0048fbb4011ec55c32d3148b2cda56433f273375 (diff)
shmem_whiteout(): fix regression from tree-in-dcache series
Now that shmem_mknod() hashes the new dentry, d_rehash() in shmem_whiteout() should be removed. X-paperbag: brown Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Fixes: 2313598222f9 ("convert ramfs and tmpfs") Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--mm/shmem.c14
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 3f194c9842a8..d3edc809e2e7 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -4019,22 +4019,10 @@ static int shmem_whiteout(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
whiteout = d_alloc(old_dentry->d_parent, &old_dentry->d_name);
if (!whiteout)
return -ENOMEM;
-
error = shmem_mknod(idmap, old_dir, whiteout,
S_IFCHR | WHITEOUT_MODE, WHITEOUT_DEV);
dput(whiteout);
- if (error)
- return error;
-
- /*
- * Cheat and hash the whiteout while the old dentry is still in
- * place, instead of playing games with FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE.
- *
- * d_lookup() will consistently find one of them at this point,
- * not sure which one, but that isn't even important.
- */
- d_rehash(whiteout);
- return 0;
+ return error;
}
/*