do_last: kill a rudiment of old ->d_revalidate() workaround
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 9 Mar 2011 06:34:45 +0000 (01:34 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:15:27 +0000 (09:15 -0400)
commitf374ed5fa8afed8590deaae5dc147422e0e1a6d9
tree76bf116e7a8c75be60734527dd804632dee8a95b
parent6c0d46c493217cf48999b3f8808910ae534aa085
do_last: kill a rudiment of old ->d_revalidate() workaround

There used to be time when ->d_revalidate() couldn't return an error.
So intents code had lookup_instantiate_filp() stash ERR_PTR(error)
in nd->intent.open.filp and had it checked after lookup_hash(), to
catch the otherwise silent failures.  That had been introduced by
commit 4af4c52f34606bdaab6930a845550c6fb02078a4.  These days
->d_revalidate() can and does propagate errors back to callers
explicitly, so this check isn't needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/namei.c