From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Deal with skipping leading slashes before what used to be the recursive call. That way we can get rid of that goto completely. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 723dead..38ff968 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1710,11 +1710,10 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) } stack[MAX_NESTED_LINKS], *last = stack + nd->depth - 1; int err; -start: while (*name=='/') name++; if (!*name) - goto OK; + return 0; /* At this point we know we have a real path component. */ for(;;) { @@ -1813,11 +1812,15 @@ Walked: nd->path = nd->root; path_get(&nd->root); nd->flags |= LOOKUP_JUMPED; + while (unlikely(*++s == '/')) + ; } nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode; last->name = name; + if (!*s) + goto OK; name = s; - goto start; + continue; } } if (!d_can_lookup(nd->path.dentry)) { -- 2.1.4 -- 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