Make fsnotify possibly work better for the inode removal case

Checking i_nlink is dubious, but the alternatives look even
less appetizing.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 7376b61..fb10386 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -102,7 +102,8 @@ static inline void dentry_iput(struct dentry * dentry)
                list_del_init(&dentry->d_alias);
                spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
                spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
-               fsnotify_inoderemove(inode);
+               if (!inode->i_nlink)
+                       fsnotify_inoderemove(inode);
                if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_iput)
                        dentry->d_op->d_iput(dentry, inode);
                else