fs: allow d_instantiate to be called with negative parent dentry
authorJeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:31:58 +0000 (14:31 +0800)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:58 +0000 (10:00 -0400)
commite6ce3066010a21bde961d8f8cefe0b69cae78a0f
tree15daad02d6c41c7947cab0a8760dac1046c472ff
parent52989765629e7d182b4f146050ebba0abf2cb0b7
fs: allow d_instantiate to be called with negative parent dentry

The new fsnotify infrastructure (starting at 90586523) causes an oops in
spufs, where we populate a directory with files before instantiating the
directory itself. The new changes seem to have introduced an assumption
that a dentry's parent will be positive when instantiating.

This change makes it once again possible to d_instantiate a dentry
with a negative parent, and brings __fsnotify_d_instantiate() into
line with inotify_d_instantiate(), which already has this NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h