static int unlazy_walk(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry)
{
	struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs;
	struct dentry *parent = nd->path.dentry;

	BUG_ON(!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU));

	/*
	 * After legitimizing the bastards, terminate_walk()
	 * will do the right thing for non-RCU mode, and all our
	 * subsequent exit cases should rcu_read_unlock()
	 * before returning.  Do vfsmount first; if dentry
	 * can't be legitimized, just set nd->path.dentry to NULL
	 * and rely on dput(NULL) being a no-op.
	 */
	if (!legitimize_mnt(nd->path.mnt, nd->m_seq))
		return -ECHILD;
	nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_RCU;

	if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&parent->d_lockref)) {
		nd->path.dentry = NULL;	
		goto out;
	}

	/*
	 * For a negative lookup, the lookup sequence point is the parents
	 * sequence point, and it only needs to revalidate the parent dentry.
	 *
	 * For a positive lookup, we need to move both the parent and the
	 * dentry from the RCU domain to be properly refcounted. And the
	 * sequence number in the dentry validates *both* dentry counters,
	 * since we checked the sequence number of the parent after we got
	 * the child sequence number. So we know the parent must still
	 * be valid if the child sequence number is still valid.
	 */
	if (!dentry) {
		if (read_seqcount_retry(&parent->d_seq, nd->seq))
			goto out;
		BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode);
	} else {
		if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref))
			goto out;
		if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, nd->seq))
			goto drop_dentry;
	}

	/*
	 * Sequence counts matched. Now make sure that the root is
	 * still valid and get it if required.
	 */
	if (nd->root.mnt && !(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT)) {
		spin_lock(&fs->lock);
		if (nd->root.mnt != fs->root.mnt || nd->root.dentry != fs->root.dentry)
			goto unlock_and_drop_dentry;
		path_get(&nd->root);
		spin_unlock(&fs->lock);
	}

	rcu_read_unlock();
	return 0;

unlock_and_drop_dentry:
	spin_unlock(&fs->lock);
drop_dentry:
	rcu_read_unlock();
	dput(dentry);
	goto drop_root_mnt;
out:
	rcu_read_unlock();
drop_root_mnt:
	if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT))
		nd->root.mnt = NULL;
	return -ECHILD;
}

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