The patch titled
nfsctl: use vfs_path_lookup
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nfsctl-use-vfs_path_lookup.patch
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Subject: nfsctl: use vfs_path_lookup
From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
use vfs_path_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfsctl.c | 16 ++++++----------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/nfsctl.c~nfsctl-use-vfs_path_lookup fs/nfsctl.c
--- a/fs/nfsctl.c~nfsctl-use-vfs_path_lookup
+++ a/fs/nfsctl.c
@@ -23,19 +23,15 @@
static struct file *do_open(char *name, int flags)
{
struct nameidata nd;
+ struct vfsmount *mnt;
int error;
- nd.mnt = do_kern_mount("nfsd", 0, "nfsd", NULL);
+ mnt = do_kern_mount("nfsd", 0, "nfsd", NULL);
+ if (IS_ERR(mnt))
+ return (struct file *)mnt;
- if (IS_ERR(nd.mnt))
- return (struct file *)nd.mnt;
-
- nd.dentry = dget(nd.mnt->mnt_root);
- nd.last_type = LAST_ROOT;
- nd.flags = 0;
- nd.depth = 0;
-
- error = path_walk(name, &nd);
+ error = vfs_path_lookup(mnt->mnt_root, mnt, name, 0, &nd);
+ mntput(mnt); /* drop do_kern_mount reference */
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
git-unionfs.patch
ecryptfs-move-ecryptfs-docs-into-documentation-filesystems.patch
fs-introduce-vfs_path_lookup.patch
sunrpc-use-vfs_path_lookup.patch
nfsctl-use-vfs_path_lookup.patch
fs-mark-link_path_walk-static.patch
fs-remove-path_walk-export.patch
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