From 5ddf1e0ff00fd808c048d0b920784828276cc516 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:01:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cifs: fix regression with O_EXCL creates and optimize away
 lookup

cifs: fix regression with O_EXCL creates and optimize away lookup

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@gmail.com>
CC: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
---
 fs/cifs/dir.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index a40054faed7..ff55fc6932c 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -643,6 +643,15 @@ cifs_lookup(struct inode *parent_dir_inode, struct dentry *direntry,
 			}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * O_EXCL: optimize away the lookup, but don't hash the dentry. Let
+	 * the VFS handle the create.
+	 */
+	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_EXCL) {
+		d_instantiate(direntry, NULL);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* can not grab the rename sem here since it would
 	deadlock in the cases (beginning of sys_rename itself)
 	in which we already have the sb rename sem */
-- 
2.11.4.GIT