On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:41:27PM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > use vfs_path_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality. > > Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfsctl.c | 15 +++++---------- > 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsctl.c > index c043136..c97df14 100644 > --- a/fs/nfsctl.c > +++ b/fs/nfsctl.c > @@ -23,19 +23,14 @@ > static struct file *do_open(char *name, int flags) > { > struct nameidata nd; > + struct vfsmount *mnt; > int error; > > - nd.mnt = do_kern_mount("nfsd", 0, "nfsd", NULL); > + mnt = do_kern_mount("nfsd", 0, "nfsd", NULL); > + if (IS_ERR(mnt)) > + return (struct file *)mnt; > > - if (IS_ERR(nd.mnt)) > - return (struct file *)nd.mnt; > - > - nd.dentry = dget(nd.mnt->mnt_root); > - nd.last_type = LAST_ROOT; > - nd.flags = 0; > - nd.depth = 0; > - > - error = path_walk(name, &nd); > + error = vfs_path_lookup(mnt->mnt_root, mnt, name, 0, &nd); > if (error) > return ERR_PTR(error); I think you're leaking a reference on the mount here as we didn't do a mntget before. We need to do an additional mntput just after the lookup to drop the reference from do_kern_mount. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html