linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 114/116] GFS2: d_splice

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Date:	Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:58:07 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 114/116] GFS2: d_splice_alias() cant return error

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>

commit 0d0d110720d7960b77c03c9f2597faaff4b484ae upstream.

unless it was given an IS_ERR(inode), which isn't the case here.  So clean
up the unnecessary error handling in gfs2_create_inode().

This paves the way for real fixes (hence the stable Cc).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/gfs2/inode.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inod
 	if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
 		error = 0;
-		if (file && !IS_ERR(d)) {
+		if (file) {
 			if (d == NULL)
 				d = dentry;
 			if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
@@ -593,8 +593,6 @@ static int gfs2_create_inode(struct inod
 				error = finish_no_open(file, d);
 		}
 		gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(ghs);
-		if (IS_ERR(d))
-			return PTR_ERR(d);
 		return error;
 	} else if (error != -ENOENT) {
 		goto fail_gunlock;


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