From df7f99670a4c76f269ae57ce91876b309417a316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:09:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] configfs: Don't try to d_delete() negative dentries.

When configfs is faking mkdir() on its subsystem or default group
objects, it starts by adding a negative dentry.  It then tries to
instantiate the group.  If that should fail, it must clean up after
itself.

I was using d_delete() here, but configfs_attach_group() promises to
return an empty dentry on error.  d_delete() explodes with the entry
dentry.  Let's try d_drop() instead.  The unhashing is what we want for
our dentry.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
---
 fs/configfs/dir.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index 3313dd19f5438..b11d7342eef2d 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -689,7 +689,8 @@ static int create_default_group(struct config_group *parent_group,
 			sd = child->d_fsdata;
 			sd->s_type |= CONFIGFS_USET_DEFAULT;
 		} else {
-			d_delete(child);
+			BUG_ON(child->d_inode);
+			d_drop(child);
 			dput(child);
 		}
 	}
@@ -1683,7 +1684,8 @@ int configfs_register_subsystem(struct configfs_subsystem *subsys)
 		err = configfs_attach_group(sd->s_element, &group->cg_item,
 					    dentry);
 		if (err) {
-			d_delete(dentry);
+			BUG_ON(dentry->d_inode);
+			d_drop(dentry);
 			dput(dentry);
 		} else {
 			spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock);
-- 
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