cifs: get rid of blind d_drop() in readdir

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
index f9b5d3d6cf3..1c576e87136 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
@@ -86,14 +86,17 @@ cifs_readdir_lookup(struct dentry *parent, struct qstr *name,
 
 	dentry = d_lookup(parent, name);
 	if (dentry) {
+		int err;
 		inode = dentry->d_inode;
 		/* update inode in place if i_ino didn't change */
 		if (inode && CIFS_I(inode)->uniqueid == fattr->cf_uniqueid) {
 			cifs_fattr_to_inode(inode, fattr);
 			return dentry;
 		}
-		d_drop(dentry);
+		err = d_invalidate(dentry);
 		dput(dentry);
+		if (err)
+			return NULL;
 	}
 
 	dentry = d_alloc(parent, name);