With this change, it's guaranteed that cgroup_path() won't see NULL cgrp->dentry, and thus we can remove the NULL check in it. (Well, it's not true, because dummptop.dentry is always NULL) Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index a893985..23a0ce1 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ int cgroup_path(const struct cgroup *cgrp, char *buf, int buflen) rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_read_lock_held() || cgroup_lock_is_held(), "cgroup_path() called without proper locking"); - if (!dentry || cgrp == dummytop) { + if (cgrp == dummytop) { /* * Inactive subsystems have no dentry for their root * cgroup @@ -4150,6 +4150,9 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, init_cgroup_housekeeping(cgrp); + dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp; + cgrp->dentry = dentry; + cgrp->parent = parent; cgrp->root = parent->root; cgrp->top_cgroup = parent->top_cgroup; @@ -4187,8 +4190,6 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, lockdep_assert_held(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); /* allocation complete, commit to creation */ - dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp; - cgrp->dentry = dentry; list_add_tail(&cgrp->allcg_node, &root->allcg_list); list_add_tail_rcu(&cgrp->sibling, &cgrp->parent->children); root->number_of_cgroups++; -- 1.8.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html