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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2008-08-11 15:49:04 +0200 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-10-23 05:13:01 -0400 |
commit | 440037287c5ebb07033ab927ca16bb68c291d309 (patch) | |
tree | c4be3843ea87a777c2647f471895917005d8068f /fs/dcache.c | |
parent | 4ea3ada2955e4519befa98ff55dd62d6dfbd1705 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias
Switch all users of d_alloc_anon to d_obtain_alias.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 46fc782..d45ff7f 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1187,17 +1187,17 @@ struct dentry * d_alloc_anon(struct inode *inode) * allocating a new one. * * On successful return, the reference to the inode has been transferred - * to the dentry. If %NULL is returned (indicating kmalloc failure), - * the reference on the inode has been released. To make it easier - * to use in export operations a NULL or IS_ERR inode may be passed in - * and will be casted to the corresponding NULL or IS_ERR dentry. + * to the dentry. In case of an error the reference on the inode is released. + * To make it easier to use in export operations a %NULL or IS_ERR inode may + * be passed in and will be the error will be propagate to the return value, + * with a %NULL @inode replaced by ERR_PTR(-ESTALE). */ struct dentry *d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode) { struct dentry *dentry; if (!inode) - return NULL; + return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE); if (IS_ERR(inode)) return ERR_CAST(inode); |