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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-11 10:13:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-11 10:13:49 -0800
commit63cf207e931894b93fe5471131e41fda567611e2 (patch)
treeb27920e481e6cbb6d3c310ca385368d3dccdec1e /fs/jffs2
parentf2c1242194c7af9b26f53359ab2b23df36d3a643 (diff)
parentf93812846f31381d35c04c6c577d724254355e7f (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro: "A couple of fixes: Fix for my dumb braino in ncpfs and a long-standing breakage on recovery from failed rename() in jffs2" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: jffs2: reduce the breakage on recovery from halfway failed rename() ncpfs: fix a braino in OOM handling in ncp_fill_cache()
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/dir.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/dir.c b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
index d211b8e18566..30c4c9ebb693 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
@@ -843,9 +843,14 @@ static int jffs2_rename (struct inode *old_dir_i, struct dentry *old_dentry,
pr_notice("%s(): Link succeeded, unlink failed (err %d). You now have a hard link\n",
__func__, ret);
- /* Might as well let the VFS know */
- d_instantiate(new_dentry, d_inode(old_dentry));
- ihold(d_inode(old_dentry));
+ /*
+ * We can't keep the target in dcache after that.
+ * For one thing, we can't afford dentry aliases for directories.
+ * For another, if there was a victim, we _can't_ set new inode
+ * for that sucker and we have to trigger mount eviction - the
+ * caller won't do it on its own since we are returning an error.
+ */
+ d_invalidate(new_dentry);
new_dir_i->i_mtime = new_dir_i->i_ctime = ITIME(now);
return ret;
}