Commit 19f6028a authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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fs/namei.c: kill follow_mount()



The only remaining caller (path_pts()) should be using follow_down()
anyway.  And clean path_pts() a bit.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 2aa38470
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@@ -1413,22 +1413,6 @@ static inline int handle_mounts(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry,
	return ret;
}

/*
 * Skip to top of mountpoint pile in refwalk mode for follow_dotdot()
 */
static void follow_mount(struct path *path)
{
	while (d_mountpoint(path->dentry)) {
		struct vfsmount *mounted = lookup_mnt(path);
		if (!mounted)
			break;
		dput(path->dentry);
		mntput(path->mnt);
		path->mnt = mounted;
		path->dentry = dget(mounted->mnt_root);
	}
}

/*
 * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry.
 * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache.
@@ -2640,7 +2624,7 @@ int path_pts(struct path *path)
	 */
	struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(path->dentry);
	struct dentry *child;
	struct qstr this;
	struct qstr this = QSTR_INIT("pts", 3);

	if (unlikely(!path_connected(path->mnt, parent))) {
		dput(parent);
@@ -2648,15 +2632,13 @@ int path_pts(struct path *path)
	}
	dput(path->dentry);
	path->dentry = parent;
	this.name = "pts";
	this.len = 3;
	child = d_hash_and_lookup(parent, &this);
	if (!child)
		return -ENOENT;

	path->dentry = child;
	dput(parent);
	follow_mount(path);
	follow_down(path);
	return 0;
}
#endif