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| author | Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> | 2008-02-15 04:34:38 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-15 06:13:33 +0100 |
| commit | 5dd784d04924be5d8bc066aded0ec3274b20e612 (patch) | |
| tree | b92ba8ffd3cad1175a75df0356882e50b5999f98 /fs | |
| parent | Use path_put() in a few places instead of {mnt,d}put() (diff) | |
| download | linux-5dd784d04924be5d8bc066aded0ec3274b20e612.tar.xz linux-5dd784d04924be5d8bc066aded0ec3274b20e612.zip | |
Introduce path_get()
This introduces the symmetric function to path_put() for getting a reference
to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 024993535b6f..a6575ca9f9d7 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -363,6 +363,19 @@ int deny_write_access(struct file * file) } /** + * path_get - get a reference to a path + * @path: path to get the reference to + * + * Given a path increment the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount. + */ +void path_get(struct path *path) +{ + mntget(path->mnt); + dget(path->dentry); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_get); + +/** * path_put - put a reference to a path * @path: path to put the reference to * @@ -1160,8 +1173,8 @@ static int do_path_lookup(int dfd, const char *name, if (retval) goto fput_fail; - nd->path.mnt = mntget(file->f_path.mnt); - nd->path.dentry = dget(dentry); + nd->path = file->f_path; + path_get(&file->f_path); fput_light(file, fput_needed); } |