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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 31 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dcache.h | 3 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 34 deletions
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 diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index 5a813988e6d4..92c08cf7670e 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -319,9 +319,6 @@ static inline unsigned d_count(const struct dentry *dentry) return dentry->d_lockref.count; } -/* validate "insecure" dentry pointer */ -extern int d_validate(struct dentry *, struct dentry *); - /* * helper function for dentry_operations.d_dname() members */ |