[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt11.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 01:16:37 +0200
Subject: vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper

commit 54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/open.c              | 12 ++++--------
 include/linux/dcache.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 50958c2..4dc4892 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -840,16 +840,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_path);
 int vfs_open(const struct path *path, struct file *file,
 	     const struct cred *cred)
 {
-	struct dentry *dentry = path->dentry;
-	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+	struct inode *inode = vfs_select_inode(path->dentry, file->f_flags);

-	file->f_path = *path;
-	if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_SELECT_INODE) {
-		inode = dentry->d_op->d_select_inode(dentry, file->f_flags);
-		if (IS_ERR(inode))
-			return PTR_ERR(inode);
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(inode))
+		return PTR_ERR(inode);

+	file->f_path = *path;
 	return do_dentry_open(file, inode, NULL, cred);
 }

diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 9c6a4fd..92470d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -593,4 +593,16 @@ static inline struct dentry *d_real(struct dentry *dentry)
 		return dentry;
 }

+static inline struct inode *vfs_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry,
+					     unsigned open_flags)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
+
+	if (inode && unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_SELECT_INODE))
+		inode = dentry->d_op->d_select_inode(dentry, open_flags);
+
+	return inode;
+}
+
+
 #endif	/* __LINUX_DCACHE_H */
--
2.7.4