cifs: fix regression with O_EXCL creates and optimize away lookup
cifs: fix regression with O_EXCL creates and optimize away lookup
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@gmail.com>
CC: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index a40054f..ff55fc6 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -643,6 +643,15 @@
}
}
+ /*
+ * O_EXCL: optimize away the lookup, but don't hash the dentry. Let
+ * the VFS handle the create.
+ */
+ if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_EXCL) {
+ d_instantiate(direntry, NULL);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
/* can not grab the rename sem here since it would
deadlock in the cases (beginning of sys_rename itself)
in which we already have the sb rename sem */