vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper

commit 54d5ca871e72f2bb172ec9323497f01cd5091ec7 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 6a24f98..157b994 100644 (file)
--- 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 f513dd8..d81746d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -592,4 +592,16 @@ 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 */