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/* getroot.c: get the root dentry for an NFS mount
*
* Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
/*
* Set the superblock root dentry.
* Note that this function frees the inode in case of error.
*/
static int nfs_superblock_set_dummy_root(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
{
/* The mntroot acts as the dummy root dentry for this superblock */
if (sb->s_root == NULL) {
sb->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
if (sb->s_root == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
ihold(inode);
/*
* Ensure that this dentry is invisible to d_find_alias().
* Otherwise, it may be spliced into the tree by
* d_splice_alias if a parent directory from the same
* filesystem gets mounted at a later time.
* This again causes shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() to
* Oops, since the test for IS_ROOT() will fail.
*/
spin_lock(&d_inode(sb->s_root)->i_lock);
spin_lock(&sb->s_root->d_lock);
hlist_del_init(&sb->s_root->d_u.d_alias);
spin_unlock(&sb->s_root->d_lock);
spin_unlock(&d_inode(sb->s_root)->i_lock);