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| author | Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> | 2008-02-14 19:34:35 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -0800 |
| commit | 1d957f9bf87da74f420424d16ece005202bbebd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 363d4770c0c74a536524c99ccd2762ce96ee9bbe /include/linux | |
| parent | 4ac9137858e08a19f29feac4e1f4df7c268b0ba5 (diff) | |
Introduce path_put()
* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
vfsmount of a struct path in the right order
* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)
* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/path.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 52fa2f78bb7..24d88e98a62 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ extern int __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameida extern int path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *); extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *); -extern void path_release(struct nameidata *); extern int __user_path_lookup_open(const char __user *, unsigned lookup_flags, struct nameidata *nd, int open_flags); extern int path_lookup_open(int dfd, const char *name, unsigned lookup_flags, struct nameidata *, int open_flags); diff --git a/include/linux/path.h b/include/linux/path.h index cbebdc5c9a6..4d976f959f3 100644 --- a/include/linux/path.h +++ b/include/linux/path.h @@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ struct path { struct dentry *dentry; }; +extern void path_put(struct path *); + #endif /* _LINUX_PATH_H */ |