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>
path->dentry = dentry;
path->mnt = nd->path.mnt;
- if (IS_ERR(nd->intent.open.file)) {
- error = PTR_ERR(nd->intent.open.file);
- goto exit_mutex_unlock;
- }
-
/* Negative dentry, just create the file */
if (!dentry->d_inode) {
int mode = op->mode;