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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 9efd6220b7c6..2e07cbbf92e3 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1084,9 +1084,20 @@ static inline struct inode *file_inode(const struct file *f) return f->f_inode; } +/* + * file_dentry() is a relic from the days that overlayfs was using files with a + * "fake" path, meaning, f_path on overlayfs and f_inode on underlying fs. + * In those days, file_dentry() was needed to get the underlying fs dentry that + * matches f_inode. + * Files with "fake" path should not exist nowadays, so use an assertion to make + * sure that file_dentry() was not papering over filesystem bugs. + */ static inline struct dentry *file_dentry(const struct file *file) { - return d_real(file->f_path.dentry, file_inode(file)); + struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry; + + WARN_ON_ONCE(d_inode(dentry) != file_inode(file)); + return dentry; } struct fasync_struct { |