From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@hera.kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:04:04 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] v9fs: fix overzealous dropping of dentry which breaks dcache
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16~15
X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=8532159f5521ba24e697f0d25970ae89ff62a1f2

[PATCH] v9fs: fix overzealous dropping of dentry which breaks dcache

There is a d_drop in dir_release which caused problems as it invalidates
dcache entries too soon.  This was likely a part of the wierd cwd behavior
folks were seeing.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c b/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
index ae6d032b9b5..cd5eeb032d6 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_dir.c
@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ int v9fs_dir_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 		filp->private_data = NULL;
 	}
 
-	d_drop(filp->f_dentry);
 	return 0;
 }