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authorAl Viro <viro@www.linux.org.uk>2005-06-06 13:36:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-06 14:42:27 -0700
commit58c465eba4d7ed307c4c7cb3382ba7ee565e8858 (patch)
treef147af3fee122ec5cc054ac78fa30e1490a8acd0 /fs/namei.c
parent39ca6d49759346d4710c759d443eec8048b27213 (diff)
downloadlinux-58c465eba4d7ed307c4c7cb3382ba7ee565e8858.tar.bz2
[PATCH] namei fixes (17/19)
follow_mount() made void, reordered dput()/mntput() in it. follow_dotdot() switched from struct vfmount ** + struct dentry ** to struct nameidata *; callers updated. Equivalent transformation + fix for too-early-mntput() race. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c35
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 444086d441e1..36925ff307b3 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -596,20 +596,17 @@ static int __follow_mount(struct path *path)
return res;
}
-static int follow_mount(struct vfsmount **mnt, struct dentry **dentry)
+static void follow_mount(struct vfsmount **mnt, struct dentry **dentry)
{
- int res = 0;
while (d_mountpoint(*dentry)) {
struct vfsmount *mounted = lookup_mnt(*mnt, *dentry);
if (!mounted)
break;
+ dput(*dentry);
mntput(*mnt);
*mnt = mounted;
- dput(*dentry);
*dentry = dget(mounted->mnt_root);
- res = 1;
}
- return res;
}
/* no need for dcache_lock, as serialization is taken care in
@@ -630,41 +627,41 @@ int follow_down(struct vfsmount **mnt, struct dentry **dentry)
return 0;
}
-static inline void follow_dotdot(struct vfsmount **mnt, struct dentry **dentry)
+static inline void follow_dotdot(struct nameidata *nd)
{
while(1) {
struct vfsmount *parent;
- struct dentry *old = *dentry;
+ struct dentry *old = nd->dentry;
read_lock(&current->fs->lock);
- if (*dentry == current->fs->root &&
- *mnt == current->fs->rootmnt) {
+ if (nd->dentry == current->fs->root &&
+ nd->mnt == current->fs->rootmnt) {
read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
break;
}
read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
- if (*dentry != (*mnt)->mnt_root) {
- *dentry = dget((*dentry)->d_parent);
+ if (nd->dentry != nd->mnt->mnt_root) {
+ nd->dentry = dget(nd->dentry->d_parent);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
dput(old);
break;
}
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
spin_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
- parent = (*mnt)->mnt_parent;
- if (parent == *mnt) {
+ parent = nd->mnt->mnt_parent;
+ if (parent == nd->mnt) {
spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
break;
}
mntget(parent);
- *dentry = dget((*mnt)->mnt_mountpoint);
+ nd->dentry = dget(nd->mnt->mnt_mountpoint);
spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
dput(old);
- mntput(*mnt);
- *mnt = parent;
+ mntput(nd->mnt);
+ nd->mnt = parent;
}
- follow_mount(mnt, dentry);
+ follow_mount(&nd->mnt, &nd->dentry);
}
/*
@@ -772,7 +769,7 @@ static fastcall int __link_path_walk(const char * name, struct nameidata *nd)
case 2:
if (this.name[1] != '.')
break;
- follow_dotdot(&nd->mnt, &nd->dentry);
+ follow_dotdot(nd);
inode = nd->dentry->d_inode;
/* fallthrough */
case 1:
@@ -839,7 +836,7 @@ last_component:
case 2:
if (this.name[1] != '.')
break;
- follow_dotdot(&nd->mnt, &nd->dentry);
+ follow_dotdot(nd);
inode = nd->dentry->d_inode;
/* fallthrough */
case 1: