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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-12-24 22:47:00 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-01-25 23:16:26 -0500
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kill d_validate()
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diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index e368d4f412f9..40432e59d72e 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2187,37 +2187,6 @@ struct dentry *d_hash_and_lookup(struct dentry *dir, struct qstr *name)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_hash_and_lookup);
-/**
- * d_validate - verify dentry provided from insecure source (deprecated)
- * @dentry: The dentry alleged to be valid child of @dparent
- * @dparent: The parent dentry (known to be valid)
- *
- * An insecure source has sent us a dentry, here we verify it and dget() it.
- * This is used by ncpfs in its readdir implementation.
- * Zero is returned in the dentry is invalid.
- *
- * This function is slow for big directories, and deprecated, do not use it.
- */
-int d_validate(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *dparent)
-{
- struct dentry *child;
-
- spin_lock(&dparent->d_lock);
- list_for_each_entry(child, &dparent->d_subdirs, d_child) {
- if (dentry == child) {
- spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
- __dget_dlock(dentry);
- spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
- spin_unlock(&dparent->d_lock);
- return 1;
- }
- }
- spin_unlock(&dparent->d_lock);
-
- return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_validate);
-
/*
* When a file is deleted, we have two options:
* - turn this dentry into a negative dentry