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| author | Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> | 2016-07-07 22:04:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2016-07-24 16:35:02 -0400 |
| commit | f4fdace94722cd4ca60bf72816de01ab911c45d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 22f99290ef803c667ac1e2c5a0d07f8b96aabee8 /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | a4a4f9439c73b921ef246368fc6f2d7c0281e99d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-f4fdace94722cd4ca60bf72816de01ab911c45d8.tar.gz lwn-f4fdace94722cd4ca60bf72816de01ab911c45d8.zip | |
vfs: Update lookup_dcache() comment
commit 6c51e513a3aa ("lookup_dcache(): lift d_alloc() into callers")
removed the need_lookup argument from lookup_dcache(), but the
comment was forgotten. Also it no longer allocates a new dentry
if nothing was found.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 5 |
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, |