vfs: remove dget() from dentry_unhash()

This serves no useful purpose that I can discern.  All callers (rename,
rmdir) hold their own reference to the dentry.

A quick audit of all file systems showed no relevant checks on the value
of d_count in vfs_rmdir/vfs_rename_dir paths.

Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/hpfs/namei.c b/fs/hpfs/namei.c
index d5f8c8a..b1c72a9 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/hpfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/hpfs/namei.c
@@ -414,7 +414,6 @@ again:
                mutex_unlock(&hpfs_i(inode)->i_parent_mutex);
                dentry_unhash(dentry);
                if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) {
-                       dput(dentry);
                        hpfs_unlock(dir->i_sb);
                        return -ENOSPC;
                }
@@ -422,7 +421,6 @@ again:
                    !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) ||
                    get_write_access(inode)) {
                        d_rehash(dentry);
-                       dput(dentry);
                } else {
                        struct iattr newattrs;
                        /*printk("HPFS: truncating file before delete.\n");*/
@@ -430,7 +428,6 @@ again:
                        newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;
                        err = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
                        put_write_access(inode);
-                       dput(dentry);
                        if (!err)
                                goto again;
                }

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index af51199..8d11187 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2545,10 +2545,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mkdir, const char __user *, pathname, int, mode)
  */
 void dentry_unhash(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-       dget(dentry);
        shrink_dcache_parent(dentry);
        spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-       if (dentry->d_count == 2)
+       if (dentry->d_count == 1)
                __d_drop(dentry);
        spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 }
@@ -2575,7 +2574,6 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
                                dentry->d_inode->i_flags |= S_DEAD;
                                dont_mount(dentry);
                        }
-                       dput(dentry);
                }
        }
        mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
@@ -3002,7 +3000,6 @@ static int vfs_rename_dir(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
                mutex_unlock(&target->i_mutex);
                if (d_unhashed(new_dentry))
                        d_rehash(new_dentry);
-               dput(new_dentry);
        }
        if (!error)
                if (!(old_dir->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE))

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 47d2a44..50f1abc 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ static int xattr_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
        mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
        if (!error)
                d_delete(dentry);
-       dput(dentry);
 
        return error;
 }