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[1/2] vfs: add d_real_inode() helper

Message ID 1463777290-22881-2-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Miklos Szeredi May 20, 2016, 8:48 p.m. UTC 
Needed by the following fix.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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 include/linux/dcache.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 7e9422cb5989..ad5d582f9b14 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -576,5 +576,17 @@  static inline struct inode *vfs_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry,
 	return inode;
 }
 
+/**
+ * d_real_inode - Return the real inode
+ * @dentry: The dentry to query
+ *
+ * If dentry is on an union/overlay, then return the underlying, real inode.
+ * Otherwise return d_inode().
+ */
+static inline struct inode *d_real_inode(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	return d_backing_inode(d_real(dentry));
+}
+
 
 #endif	/* __LINUX_DCACHE_H */