[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] fs: allow d_instantiate to be called with negative parent dentry

[Jeremy Kerr]

The new fsnotify infrastructure (starting at 90586523) causes an oops in
spufs, where we populate a directory with files before instantiating the
directory itself. The new changes seem to have introduced an assumption
that a dentry's parent will be positive when instantiating.

This change makes it once again possible to d_instantiate a dentry
with a negative parent, and brings __fsnotify_d_instantiate() into
line with inotify_d_instantiate(), which already has this NULL check.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>

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Apologies for the resend, fixed lkml address

---
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 44848aa..6c3de99 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static inline void __fsnotify_update_dcache_flags(struct dentry *dentry)
 	assert_spin_locked(&dentry->d_lock);
 
 	parent = dentry->d_parent;
-	if (fsnotify_inode_watches_children(parent->d_inode))
+	if (parent->d_inode && fsnotify_inode_watches_children(parent->d_inode))
 		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;
 	else
 		dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_FSNOTIFY_PARENT_WATCHED;