The patch titled fs: use path_walk in do_path_lookup has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-use-path_walk-in-do_path_lookup.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fs: use path_walk in do_path_lookup From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Since path_walk sets the total_link_count to 0 and calls link_path_walk, we can just call path_walk directly. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~fs-use-path_walk-in-do_path_lookup fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~fs-use-path_walk-in-do_path_lookup +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -1152,8 +1152,8 @@ static int fastcall do_path_lookup(int d fput_light(file, fput_needed); } - current->total_link_count = 0; - retval = link_path_walk(name, nd); + + retval = path_walk(name, nd); out: if (unlikely(!retval && !audit_dummy_context() && nd->dentry && nd->dentry->d_inode)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-unionfs.patch fs-fix-indentation-in-do_path_lookup.patch fs-use-path_walk-in-do_path_lookup.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html