NFS: Fix nfs_verify_change_attribute()

We don't care about whether or not some other process on our client is
changing the directory while we're in nfs_lookup_revalidate(), because the
dcache will take care of ensuring local atomicity.
We can therefore remove the test for nfs_caches_unstable().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index a765dd456922..0197b1243fe0 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -270,16 +270,16 @@ static inline unsigned long nfs_save_change_attribute(struct inode *dir)
 }
 
 /**
- * nfs_verify_change_attribute - Detects NFS inode cache updates
- * @inode - pointer to inode
+ * nfs_verify_change_attribute - Detects NFS remote directory changes
+ * @dir - pointer to parent directory inode
  * @chattr - previously saved change attribute
- * Return "false" if metadata has been updated (or is in the process of
- * being updated) since the change attribute was saved.
+ * Return "false" if the verifiers doesn't match the change attribute.
+ * This would usually indicate that the directory contents have changed on
+ * the server, and that any dentries need revalidating.
  */
-static inline int nfs_verify_change_attribute(struct inode *inode, unsigned long chattr)
+static inline int nfs_verify_change_attribute(struct inode *dir, unsigned long chattr)
 {
-        return !nfs_caches_unstable(inode)
-                && chattr == NFS_I(inode)->cache_change_attribute;
+        return chattr == NFS_I(dir)->cache_change_attribute;
 }
 
 /*