[PATCH 17/53] coda: don't d_drop() early.

NeilBrown neilb at ownmail.net
Thu Mar 12 14:12:04 PDT 2026


From: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>

Proposed locking changes will mean that calling d_drop() could
effectively unlock the name allowing a parallel lookup to proceed.
For this reason it could only be called *after* the attempt to create a
symlink (in this case) has completed (whether successfully or not).

So move the d_drop() to after the venus_symlink() call.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>
---
 fs/coda/dir.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c
index c64b8cd81568..70eb6042fdaa 100644
--- a/fs/coda/dir.c
+++ b/fs/coda/dir.c
@@ -244,13 +244,13 @@ static int coda_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 	if (symlen > CODA_MAXPATHLEN)
 		return -ENAMETOOLONG;
 
+	error = venus_symlink(dir_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(dir_inode), name, len,
+			      symname, symlen);
 	/*
-	 * This entry is now negative. Since we do not create
+	 * This entry is still negative. Since we did not create
 	 * an inode for the entry we have to drop it.
 	 */
 	d_drop(de);
-	error = venus_symlink(dir_inode->i_sb, coda_i2f(dir_inode), name, len,
-			      symname, symlen);
 
 	/* mtime is no good anymore */
 	if (!error)
-- 
2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty




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