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-rw-r--r--fs/ext2/namei.c13
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c
index 80c97fd8c571..a1b328ab1e55 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ static struct dentry *ext2_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, str
struct dentry *ext2_get_parent(struct dentry *child)
{
unsigned long ino;
- struct dentry *parent;
- struct inode *inode;
struct dentry dotdot;
dotdot.d_name.name = "..";
@@ -83,16 +81,7 @@ struct dentry *ext2_get_parent(struct dentry *child)
ino = ext2_inode_by_name(child->d_inode, &dotdot);
if (!ino)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
- inode = ext2_iget(child->d_inode->i_sb, ino);
-
- if (IS_ERR(inode))
- return ERR_CAST(inode);
- parent = d_alloc_anon(inode);
- if (!parent) {
- iput(inode);
- parent = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- }
- return parent;
+ return d_obtain_alias(ext2_iget(child->d_inode->i_sb, ino));
}
/*