VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in…

… pathwalk

Where we have:

    	if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {

type constructions in pathwalk we should be able to eliminate the check of
d_inode and rely solely on the result of d_is_negative() or d_is_positive().

What we do have to take care to do is to read d_inode after calling a
d_is_xxx() typecheck function to get the barriering right.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fs/namei.c

@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ static inline int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
 		inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
 	}
 	err = -ENOENT;
-	if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry))
+	if (d_is_negative(path->dentry))
 		goto out_path_put;
 
 	if (should_follow_link(path->dentry, follow)) {
@@ -2310,7 +2310,7 @@ mountpoint_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path)
 	mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
 done:
-	if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {
+	if (d_is_negative(dentry)) {
 		error = -ENOENT;
 		dput(dentry);
 		goto out;
@@ -3038,7 +3038,7 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
 finish_lookup:
 	/* we _can_ be in RCU mode here */
 	error = -ENOENT;
-	if (!inode || d_is_negative(path->dentry)) {
+	if (d_is_negative(path->dentry)) {
 		path_to_nameidata(path, nd);
 		goto out;
 	}