[patch 4/5] vfs: reuse local variable in vfs_link()
Why not reuse "inode" which is assigned as
struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
in the beginning of vfs_link() ?
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 46af98e..3b67be7 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2524,19 +2524,19 @@
return -EPERM;
if (!dir->i_op || !dir->i_op->link)
return -EPERM;
- if (S_ISDIR(old_dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
return -EPERM;
error = security_inode_link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
if (error)
return error;
- mutex_lock(&old_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
DQUOT_INIT(dir);
error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
- mutex_unlock(&old_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
if (!error)
- fsnotify_link(dir, old_dentry->d_inode, new_dentry);
+ fsnotify_link(dir, inode, new_dentry);
return error;
}