minor patch for 2.1.51 dcache

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 13:32:09 -0400

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In d_delete the d_alias list isn't re-inited after doing the list_del,
so it could cause problems testing list_empty(&dentry->d_alias) later.

Regards,
Bill
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--- fs/dcache.c.old Tue Aug 19 09:15:10 1997
+++ fs/dcache.c Tue Aug 19 12:42:22 1997
@@ -313,9 +313,12 @@
if (dentry->d_count == 1) {
struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;

- dentry->d_inode = NULL;
- list_del(&dentry->d_alias);
- iput(inode);
+ if (inode) {
+ dentry->d_inode = NULL;
+ list_del(&dentry->d_alias);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dentry->d_alias);
+ iput(inode);
+ }
return;
}

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