[RFC 05/26] VFS: cache_lookup() cleanup

[Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>]

cache_lookup() can directly use d_lookup() instead of calling __d_lookup()
first since rename_lock is a seq_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
---
 fs/namei.c |   13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -403,15 +403,10 @@ do_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, str
  * Internal lookup() using the new generic dcache.
  * SMP-safe
  */
-static struct dentry * cached_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name, struct nameidata *nd)
+static struct dentry *cache_lookup(struct dentry *parent, struct qstr *name,
+				   struct nameidata *nd)
 {
-	struct dentry * dentry = __d_lookup(parent, name);
-
-	/* lockess __d_lookup may fail due to concurrent d_move() 
-	 * in some unrelated directory, so try with d_lookup
-	 */
-	if (!dentry)
-		dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
+	struct dentry *dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
 
 	if (dentry && dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)
 		dentry = do_revalidate(dentry, nd);
@@ -1276,7 +1271,7 @@ static inline struct dentry *__lookup_ha
 			goto out;
 	}
 
-	dentry = cached_lookup(base, name, nd);
+	dentry = cache_lookup(base, name, nd);
 	if (!dentry) {
 		struct dentry *new = d_alloc(base, name);
 		dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

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