The dentry local variable is introduced in 'commit 84d17192d2afd ("get rid of full-hash scan on detaching vfsmounts")' to reduce the length of some long statements for example mutex_lock(&path->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex). We have already used inode_lock(dentry->d_inode) to do the same thing now, and its length is acceptable. Furthermore, it seems not concise that assign path->dentry to local variable dentry in the statement before goto. So, this function would be more clear if we eliminate the local variable dentry. The function logic is not changed. Signed-off-by: Hao Lee <haolee.swjtu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 4a0f600a3328..fcb93586fcc9 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -2187,20 +2187,19 @@ static int attach_recursive_mnt(struct mount *source_mnt, static struct mountpoint *lock_mount(struct path *path) { struct vfsmount *mnt; - struct dentry *dentry = path->dentry; retry: - inode_lock(dentry->d_inode); - if (unlikely(cant_mount(dentry))) { - inode_unlock(dentry->d_inode); + inode_lock(path->dentry->d_inode); + if (unlikely(cant_mount(path->dentry))) { + inode_unlock(path->dentry->d_inode); return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); } namespace_lock(); mnt = lookup_mnt(path); if (likely(!mnt)) { - struct mountpoint *mp = get_mountpoint(dentry); + struct mountpoint *mp = get_mountpoint(path->dentry); if (IS_ERR(mp)) { namespace_unlock(); - inode_unlock(dentry->d_inode); + inode_unlock(path->dentry->d_inode); return mp; } return mp; @@ -2209,7 +2208,7 @@ static struct mountpoint *lock_mount(struct path *path) inode_unlock(path->dentry->d_inode); path_put(path); path->mnt = mnt; - dentry = path->dentry = dget(mnt->mnt_root); + path->dentry = dget(mnt->mnt_root); goto retry; } -- 2.24.1