From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:35:05 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: ntfs: remove i_version handling
X-Git-Tag: v4.16-rc1~182^2~19
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a11ac289c437cb06633620940b191a63dec1f4a;p=linux.git

ntfs: remove i_version handling

NTFS keeps track of the i_version counter here, seemingly for no reason.
It does not set the SB_I_VERSION flag so it'll never be incremented on
write, and it doesn't increment it internally for metadata operations.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
index 7c410f879412..1c1ee489284b 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c
@@ -560,13 +560,6 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_inode(struct inode *vi)
 	ntfs_debug("Entering for i_ino 0x%lx.", vi->i_ino);
 
 	/* Setup the generic vfs inode parts now. */
-
-	/*
-	 * This is for checking whether an inode has changed w.r.t. a file so
-	 * that the file can be updated if necessary (compare with f_version).
-	 */
-	vi->i_version = 1;
-
 	vi->i_uid = vol->uid;
 	vi->i_gid = vol->gid;
 	vi->i_mode = 0;
@@ -1240,7 +1233,6 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_attr_inode(struct inode *base_vi, struct inode *vi)
 	base_ni = NTFS_I(base_vi);
 
 	/* Just mirror the values from the base inode. */
-	vi->i_version	= base_vi->i_version;
 	vi->i_uid	= base_vi->i_uid;
 	vi->i_gid	= base_vi->i_gid;
 	set_nlink(vi, base_vi->i_nlink);
@@ -1507,7 +1499,6 @@ static int ntfs_read_locked_index_inode(struct inode *base_vi, struct inode *vi)
 	ni	= NTFS_I(vi);
 	base_ni = NTFS_I(base_vi);
 	/* Just mirror the values from the base inode. */
-	vi->i_version	= base_vi->i_version;
 	vi->i_uid	= base_vi->i_uid;
 	vi->i_gid	= base_vi->i_gid;
 	set_nlink(vi, base_vi->i_nlink);
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/mft.c b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
index ee8392aee9f6..2831f495a674 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/mft.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/mft.c
@@ -2641,12 +2641,6 @@ ntfs_inode *ntfs_mft_record_alloc(ntfs_volume *vol, const int mode,
 			goto undo_mftbmp_alloc;
 		}
 		vi->i_ino = bit;
-		/*
-		 * This is for checking whether an inode has changed w.r.t. a
-		 * file so that the file can be updated if necessary (compare
-		 * with f_version).
-		 */
-		vi->i_version = 1;
 
 		/* The owner and group come from the ntfs volume. */
 		vi->i_uid = vol->uid;