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authorJan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>2007-07-19 01:48:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-19 10:04:48 -0700
commit8c6d21528406ec719aaea9d589876fd105c31646 (patch)
tree00ff80bd206e5178cf57e37844d7512687ea2f59 /fs/coda/dir.c
parentd728900cd5502927158db747c653007cf72e2e49 (diff)
downloadlinux-8c6d21528406ec719aaea9d589876fd105c31646.tar.gz
coda: allow removal of busy directories
A directory without children may still be busy when it is the cwd for some
process.  We can safely remove such a directory because the VFS prevents
further operations.  Also we don't need to call d_delete as it is already
called in vfs_rmdir.

Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/coda/dir.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/coda/dir.c23
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c
index 56a3b76b91ca..01f55f447d82 100644
--- a/fs/coda/dir.c
+++ b/fs/coda/dir.c
@@ -391,28 +391,23 @@ int coda_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *de)
 {
 	const char *name = de->d_name.name;
 	int len = de->d_name.len;
-        int error;
+	int error;
 
 	lock_kernel();
 	coda_vfs_stat.rmdir++;
 
-	if (!d_unhashed(de)) {
-		unlock_kernel();
-		return -EBUSY;
-	}
 	error = venus_rmdir(dir->i_sb, coda_i2f(dir), name, len);
+	if (!error) {
+		/* VFS may delete the child */
+		if (de->d_inode)
+		    de->d_inode->i_nlink = 0;
 
-	if ( error ) {
-		unlock_kernel();
-		return error;
+		/* fix the link count of the parent */
+		coda_dir_drop_nlink(dir);
+		coda_dir_update_mtime(dir);
 	}
-
-	coda_dir_drop_nlink(dir);
-	coda_dir_update_mtime(dir);
-	drop_nlink(de->d_inode);
-	d_delete(de);
 	unlock_kernel();
-	return 0;
+	return error;
 }
 
 /* rename */