From: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

It seems to me that this dentry assignment in open_namei is not needed per
the patch below.  On this path, dentry is not referenced.



---

 25-akpm/fs/namei.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/namei.c~unneeded-dentry-assignment fs/namei.c
--- 25/fs/namei.c~unneeded-dentry-assignment	Fri Jan 30 11:48:07 2004
+++ 25-akpm/fs/namei.c	Fri Jan 30 11:48:07 2004
@@ -1260,7 +1260,6 @@ int open_namei(const char * pathname, in
 		error = path_lookup(pathname, lookup_flags(flag)|LOOKUP_OPEN, nd);
 		if (error)
 			return error;
-		dentry = nd->dentry;
 		goto ok;
 	}
 

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