From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755023AbcGVRuy (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:50:54 -0400 Received: from fieldses.org ([173.255.197.46]:40090 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753183AbcGVRtG (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:49:06 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: Oleg Drokin Cc: Jeff Layton , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" , "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: [PATCH 5/7] nfsd: remove unnecessary positive-dentry check Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:48:54 -0400 Message-Id: <1469209736-6490-6-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 In-Reply-To: <1469209736-6490-1-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com> References: <1469209736-6490-1-git-send-email-bfields@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "J. Bruce Fields" vfs_{create,mkdir,mknod} each begin with a call to may_create(), which returns EEXIST if the object already exists. This check is therefore unnecessary. (In the NFSv2 case, nfsd_proc_create also has such a check. Contrary to RFC 1094, our code seems to believe that a CREATE of an existing file should succeed. I'm leaving that behavior alone.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields --- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index 9c7830cdaeda..d45b39b408a1 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -1157,17 +1157,7 @@ nfsd_create_locked(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, err = nfserr_io; goto out; } - /* - * Make sure the child dentry is still negative ... - */ - err = nfserr_exist; - if (d_really_is_positive(dchild)) { - dprintk("nfsd_create: dentry %pd/%pd not negative!\n", - dentry, dchild); - goto out; - } - /* Now let's see if we actually have permissions to create */ err = nfsd_permission(rqstp, fhp->fh_export, dentry, NFSD_MAY_CREATE); if (err) goto out; -- 2.7.4