> The patch given below replaces the goto-loop by a while-based one. That certainly looks fine. I would also replace the 'return' with 'break', but I guess that's more of a question of personal preference. > Besides, it removes the export for the same routine, because there are > no users for it outside of the core VFS code. This doesn't look fine. Did you test this? mntput_no_expire() is called from mntput() which is an inline function in mount.h. So lots of callers of mntput() in modules will end up trying to call mntput_no_expire() from modules. $ nm fs/fuse/fuse.ko | grep mntput_no_expire U mntput_no_expire - z - 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