From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 11:32:15 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: eventfs: Remove unused d_parent pointer field
X-Git-Tag: v6.7.6~122
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29147efdcefdd8ccd0ccf7334672290fb6ababba;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

eventfs: Remove unused d_parent pointer field

commit 408600be78cdb8c650a97ecc7ff411cb216811b5 upstream.

It's never used

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/202401291043.e62e89dc-oliver.sang@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240131185512.961772428@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: c1504e510238 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs dir creation functions")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 04c2ab90f93e6..16ca8d9759b18 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -680,10 +680,8 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ei->list);
 
 	mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
-	if (!parent->is_freed) {
+	if (!parent->is_freed)
 		list_add_tail(&ei->list, &parent->children);
-		ei->d_parent = parent->dentry;
-	}
 	mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
 
 	/* Was the parent freed? */
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/internal.h b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
index 09037e2c173dc..932733a2696a1 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ struct eventfs_attr {
  * @name:	the name of the directory to create
  * @children:	link list into the child eventfs_inode
  * @dentry:     the dentry of the directory
- * @d_parent:   pointer to the parent's dentry
  * @d_children: The array of dentries to represent the files when created
  * @entry_attrs: Saved mode and ownership of the @d_children
  * @attr:	Saved mode and ownership of eventfs_inode itself
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
 	const char			*name;
 	struct list_head		children;
 	struct dentry			*dentry; /* Check is_freed to access */
-	struct dentry			*d_parent;
 	struct dentry			**d_children;
 	struct eventfs_attr		*entry_attrs;
 	struct eventfs_attr		attr;