From 5dd784d04924be5d8bc066aded0ec3274b20e612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Blunck Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:34:38 -0800 Subject: Introduce path_get() This introduces the symmetric function to path_put() for getting a reference to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/namei.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- include/linux/path.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 024993535b6..a6575ca9f9d 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -362,6 +362,19 @@ int deny_write_access(struct file * file) return 0; } +/** + * path_get - get a reference to a path + * @path: path to get the reference to + * + * Given a path increment the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount. + */ +void path_get(struct path *path) +{ + mntget(path->mnt); + dget(path->dentry); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_get); + /** * path_put - put a reference to a path * @path: path to put the reference to @@ -1160,8 +1173,8 @@ static int do_path_lookup(int dfd, const char *name, if (retval) goto fput_fail; - nd->path.mnt = mntget(file->f_path.mnt); - nd->path.dentry = dget(dentry); + nd->path = file->f_path; + path_get(&file->f_path); fput_light(file, fput_needed); } diff --git a/include/linux/path.h b/include/linux/path.h index 4d976f959f3..915e0c382a5 100644 --- a/include/linux/path.h +++ b/include/linux/path.h @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ struct path { struct dentry *dentry; }; +extern void path_get(struct path *); extern void path_put(struct path *); #endif /* _LINUX_PATH_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3