vfs: make it possible to access the dentry hash/len as one 64-bit entry
This allows comparing hash and len in one operation on 64-bit
architectures. Right now only __d_lookup_rcu() takes advantage of this,
since that is the case we care most about.
The use of anonymous struct/unions hides the alternate 64-bit approach
from most users, the exception being a few cases where we initialize a
'struct qstr' with a static initializer. This makes the problematic
cases use a new QSTR_INIT() helper function for that (but initializing
just the name pointer with a "{ .name = xyzzy }" initializer remains
valid, as does just copying another qstr structure).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/ext2/namei.c b/fs/ext2/namei.c
index dffb865..f663a67 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/namei.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
struct dentry *ext2_get_parent(struct dentry *child)
{
- struct qstr dotdot = {.name = "..", .len = 2};
+ struct qstr dotdot = QSTR_INIT("..", 2);
unsigned long ino = ext2_inode_by_name(child->d_inode, &dotdot);
if (!ino)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);