* [PATCH] vfs: Update lookup_dcache() comment
@ 2016-07-08 2:04 Oleg Drokin
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From: Oleg Drokin @ 2016-07-08 2:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexander Viro; +Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel, Oleg Drokin
commit 6c51e513a3aa ("lookup_dcache(): lift d_alloc() into callers")
removed the need_lookup argument from lookup_dcache(), but the
comment was forgotten. Also it no longer allocates a new dentry
if nothing was found.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
---
fs/namei.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 70580ab..c4f52e8 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1449,9 +1449,8 @@ static int follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
}
/*
- * This looks up the name in dcache, possibly revalidates the old dentry and
- * allocates a new one if not found or not valid. In the need_lookup argument
- * returns whether i_op->lookup is necessary.
+ * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry.
+ * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache.
*/
static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(const struct qstr *name,
struct dentry *dir,
--
2.7.4
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