[PATCH 5/8] cachefiles: Clean up in cachefiles_commit_tmpfile()
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Oct 10 22:23:02 AEDT 2024
Zizhi Wo <wozizhi at huawei.com> wrote:
> Currently, cachefiles_commit_tmpfile() will only be called if object->flags
> is set to CACHEFILES_OBJECT_USING_TMPFILE. Only cachefiles_create_file()
> and cachefiles_invalidate_cookie() set this flag. Both of these functions
> replace object->file with the new tmpfile, and both are called by
> fscache_cookie_state_machine(), so there are no concurrency issues.
>
> So the equation "d_backing_inode(dentry) == file_inode(object->file)" in
> cachefiles_commit_tmpfile() will never hold true according to the above
> conditions. This patch removes this part of the redundant code and does not
> involve any other logical changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi at huawei.com>
Yeah, that's reasonable - and if it did hold true, all we do is unlink and
relink it.
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
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