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Message-ID: <20070611050327.GL29122@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:03:27 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, cebbert@...hat.com, sandeen@...hat.com,
	maneesh@...ibm.com, cs@...uila.co.jp
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: fix condition check in sysfs_drop_dentry()

The condition check doesn't make much sense as it basically always
succeeds.  This causes NULL dereferencing on certain cases.  It seems
that parentheses are put in the wrong place.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
---
 fs/sysfs/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: work1/fs/sysfs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- work1.orig/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ work1/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dire
 	if (dentry) {
 		spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		if (!(d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode)) {
+		if (!d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode) {
 			inode = dentry->d_inode;
 			spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 			__iget(inode);
-
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