[PATCH 27/53] smb/client: use d_splice_alias() in atomic_open
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From: NeilBrown <hidden>
Date: 2026-03-13 00:46:05
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ceph-devel, gfs2, linux-cifs, linux-efi, linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-nfs, linux-um, linux-unionfs, linux-xfs, lkml
Subsystem:
common internet file system client (cifs and smb3), filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers:
Paulo Alcantara, Namjae Jeon, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> atomic_open can be called with a hashed-negative dentry or an in-lookup dentry. Rather than d_drop() and d_add() we can use d_splice_alias() which keeps the dentry hashed - important for proposed locking changes. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> --- fs/smb/client/dir.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/dir.c b/fs/smb/client/dir.c
index cecbc0cce5c5..361a20987927 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/dir.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/dir.c@@ -439,8 +439,7 @@ static int cifs_do_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, unsigned goto out_err; } - d_drop(direntry); - d_add(direntry, newinode); + d_splice_alias(newinode, direntry); out: free_dentry_path(page);
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