linux-stable/fs/debugfs
Al Viro 0c8c205381 new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked()
[ Upstream commit 6c2d4798a8 ]

Most of the callers of lookup_one_len_unlocked() treat negatives are
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT).  Provide a helper that would do just that.  Note
that a pinned positive dentry remains positive - it's ->d_inode is
stable, etc.; a pinned _negative_ dentry can become positive at any
point as long as you are not holding its parent at least shared.
So using lookup_one_len_unlocked() needs to be careful;
lookup_positive_unlocked() is safer and that's what the callers
end up open-coding anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Stable-dep-of: 0d5a4f8f77 ("fs: Fix error checking for d_hash_and_lookup()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-09-23 10:59:40 +02:00
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Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
file.c debugfs: regset32: Add Runtime PM support 2023-05-17 11:35:32 +02:00
inode.c new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked() 2023-09-23 10:59:40 +02:00
internal.h debugfs: Remove redundant license text 2017-11-07 20:25:03 +01:00