From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> All callers of terminate_walk() are followed by more or less open-coded eqiuvalent of "do put_link() on everything left in nd->stack". Better done in terminate_walk() itself, and when we go for RCU symlink traversal we'll have to do it there anyway. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 26466fb..31da717 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1562,6 +1562,8 @@ static void terminate_walk(struct nameidata *nd) nd->root.mnt = NULL; rcu_read_unlock(); } + while (unlikely(nd->depth)) + put_link(nd); } /* @@ -1856,8 +1858,6 @@ Walked: } } terminate_walk(nd); - while (unlikely(nd->depth)) - put_link(nd); return err; OK: if (!nd->depth) /* called from path_init(), done */ @@ -2374,8 +2374,6 @@ done: error = 0; out: terminate_walk(nd); - if (nd->depth) - put_link(nd); return error; } @@ -2978,8 +2976,6 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, error = handle_dots(nd, nd->last_type); if (unlikely(error)) { terminate_walk(nd); - if (nd->depth) - put_link(nd); return error; } goto finish_open; @@ -3176,8 +3172,6 @@ out: mnt_drop_write(nd->path.mnt); path_put(&save_parent); terminate_walk(nd); - if (nd->depth) - put_link(nd); return error; exit_dput: -- 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