commit 7e7d4d13c220a6e4d7cae8093e0834f210b50390
Author: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Jan 10 06:59:15 2008 -0500
Unionfs: remove unnecessary conditional inode lock
This was intended to protect the inode during branch management, but that is
now done through our superblock rwsem.
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c
index 767225e..4f67419 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ static bool __unionfs_d_revalidate_one(struct dentry *dentry,
int bindex, bstart, bend;
int sbgen, dgen;
int positive = 0;
- int locked = 0;
int interpose_flag;
struct nameidata lowernd; /* TODO: be gentler to the stack */
@@ -100,16 +99,6 @@ static bool __unionfs_d_revalidate_one(struct dentry
*dentry,
interpose_flag = INTERPOSE_REVAL_NEG;
if (positive) {
interpose_flag = INTERPOSE_REVAL;
- /*
- * During BRM, the VFS could already hold a lock on
- * a file being read, so don't lock it again
- * (deadlock), but if you lock it in this function,
- * then release it here too.
- */
- if (!mutex_is_locked(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex)) {
- mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
- locked = 1;
- }
bstart = ibstart(dentry->d_inode);
bend = ibend(dentry->d_inode);
@@ -128,8 +117,6 @@ static bool __unionfs_d_revalidate_one(struct dentry
*dentry,
UNIONFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->lower_inodes = NULL;
ibstart(dentry->d_inode) = -1;
ibend(dentry->d_inode) = -1;
- if (locked)
- mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
}
/* on reval, als purge the odf dentry, if any */
if (UNIONFS_D(dentry)->odf.dentry) {
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