Use d_instantiate() rather than d_add() and don't d_drop() in afs_vnode_new_inode(). The dentry shouldn't be removed as it's not changing its name.
Reported-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com> --- fs/afs/dir.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c index 43dea3b00c29..8a2562e3a316 100644 --- a/fs/afs/dir.c +++ b/fs/afs/dir.c @@ -1075,8 +1075,6 @@ static void afs_vnode_new_inode(struct afs_fs_cursor *fc, if (fc->ac.error < 0) return; - d_drop(new_dentry); - inode = afs_iget(fc->vnode->vfs_inode.i_sb, fc->key, newfid, newstatus, newcb, fc->cbi); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { @@ -1090,7 +1088,7 @@ static void afs_vnode_new_inode(struct afs_fs_cursor *fc, vnode = AFS_FS_I(inode); set_bit(AFS_VNODE_NEW_CONTENT, &vnode->flags); afs_vnode_commit_status(fc, vnode, 0); - d_add(new_dentry, inode); + d_instantiate(new_dentry, inode); } /*