Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | [PATCH] vfs: Update lookup_dcache() comment | Date | Thu, 7 Jul 2016 22:04:04 -0400 |
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commit 6c51e513a3aa ("lookup_dcache(): lift d_alloc() into callers") removed the need_lookup argument from lookup_dcache(), but the comment was forgotten. Also it no longer allocates a new dentry if nothing was found.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru> --- fs/namei.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 70580ab..c4f52e8 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1449,9 +1449,8 @@ static int follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd) } /* - * This looks up the name in dcache, possibly revalidates the old dentry and - * allocates a new one if not found or not valid. In the need_lookup argument - * returns whether i_op->lookup is necessary. + * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry. + * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache. */ static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(const struct qstr *name, struct dentry *dir, -- 2.7.4
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