From 63afdfc781e10c6b3ec38274e6163422876caa9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 15:59:00 +0100 Subject: VFS: Handle lower layer dentry/inode in pathwalk Make use of d_backing_inode() in pathwalk to gain access to an inode or dentry that's on a lower layer. Signed-off-by: David Howells --- fs/open.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/open.c') diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 98e5a52dc68c..e0250bdcc440 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ retry: if (res) goto out; - inode = path.dentry->d_inode; + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); if ((mode & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { /* -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522