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> --- 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; } -- 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