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[RFC,v2,2/3] vfs: make argument of d_real_inode() const

Message ID 1469109216-24353-3-git-send-email-mszeredi@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Miklos Szeredi July 21, 2016, 1:53 p.m. UTC 
d_op->d_real() leaves the dentry alone except if the third argument is
non-zero.  Unfortunately very difficult to explain to the compiler without
a cast.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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 include/linux/dcache.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 14df83609c7f..b965751c6b71 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -583,9 +583,10 @@  static inline struct dentry *d_real(struct dentry *dentry,
  * 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)
+static inline struct inode *d_real_inode(const struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	return d_backing_inode(d_real(dentry, NULL, 0));
+	/* This usage of d_real() results in const dentry */
+	return d_backing_inode(d_real((struct dentry *) dentry, NULL, 0));
 }