On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Eric Paris wrote:
> The pipe code duplicates the functionality of alloc-file and init-file. Use
> the generic vfs functions instead of duplicating code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
As a side note: I wonder why we aren't passing a "struct path" to
alloc_file() and why are the refcount rules wrt. dentries/vfsmounts so
weird?
> ---
>
> fs/pipe.c | 21 +++++++++------------
> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
> index ae17d02..5d6c969 100644
> --- a/fs/pipe.c
> +++ b/fs/pipe.c
> @@ -1028,20 +1028,17 @@ void free_write_pipe(struct file *f)
>
> struct file *create_read_pipe(struct file *wrf, int flags)
> {
> - struct file *f = get_empty_filp();
> - if (!f)
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENFILE);
> -
> - /* Grab pipe from the writer */
> - f->f_path = wrf->f_path;
> - path_get(&wrf->f_path);
> - f->f_mapping = wrf->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
> + struct file *f;
> + struct dentry *dentry = wrf->f_path.dentry;
> + struct vfsmount *mnt = wrf->f_path.mnt;
>
> - f->f_pos = 0;
> + dentry = dget(dentry);
> + f = alloc_file(mnt, dentry, FMODE_READ, &read_pipefifo_fops);
> + if (!f) {
> + dput(dentry);
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENFILE);
> + }
> f->f_flags = O_RDONLY | (flags & O_NONBLOCK);
> - f->f_op = &read_pipefifo_fops;
> - f->f_mode = FMODE_READ;
> - f->f_version = 0;
>
> return f;
> }
>
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