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diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index a8bd28cde7e2..f23f455be42b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,45 @@ out_error:
}
/*
+ * A weaker form of d_revalidate for revalidating just the dentry->d_inode
+ * when we don't really care about the dentry name. This is called when a
+ * pathwalk ends on a dentry that was not found via a normal lookup in the
+ * parent dir (e.g.: ".", "..", procfs symlinks or mountpoint traversals).
+ *
+ * In this situation, we just want to verify that the inode itself is OK
+ * since the dentry might have changed on the server.
+ */
+static int nfs_weak_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ int error;
+ struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+
+ /*
+ * I believe we can only get a negative dentry here in the case of a
+ * procfs-style symlink. Just assume it's correct for now, but we may
+ * eventually need to do something more here.
+ */
+ if (!inode) {
+ dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "%s: %s/%s has negative inode\n",
+ __func__, dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
+ dentry->d_name.name);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
+ if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
+ dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "%s: %s/%s has dud inode\n",
+ __func__, dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
+ dentry->d_name.name);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ error = nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode);
+ dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s: inode %lu is %s\n",
+ __func__, inode->i_ino, error ? "invalid" : "valid");
+ return !error;
+}
+
+/*
* This is called from dput() when d_count is going to 0.
*/
static int nfs_dentry_delete(const struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -1202,6 +1241,7 @@ static void nfs_d_release(struct dentry *dentry)
const struct dentry_operations nfs_dentry_operations = {
.d_revalidate = nfs_lookup_revalidate,
+ .d_weak_revalidate = nfs_weak_revalidate,
.d_delete = nfs_dentry_delete,
.d_iput = nfs_dentry_iput,
.d_automount = nfs_d_automount,