In nfs_do_call_unlink() we check that we haven't raced, and that lookup()
hasn't created an aliased dentry to our sillydeleted dentry. If somebody
has deleted the file on the server and the lookup() resulted in a negative
dentry, then ignore...
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
alias = d_lookup(parent, &data->args.name);
if (alias != NULL) {
int ret = 0;
+
/*
* Hey, we raced with lookup... See if we need to transfer
* the sillyrename information to the aliased dentry.
*/
nfs_free_dname(data);
spin_lock(&alias->d_lock);
- if (!(alias->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) {
+ if (alias->d_inode != NULL &&
+ !(alias->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) {
alias->d_fsdata = data;
alias->d_flags |= DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED;
ret = 1;