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>
This commit is contained in:
Jan Blunck
2008-02-14 19:34:35 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4ac9137858
commit 1d957f9bf8
41 changed files with 125 additions and 118 deletions

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@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ static int find_inode(const char __user *dirname, struct nameidata *nd,
/* you can only watch an inode if you have read permissions on it */
error = vfs_permission(nd, MAY_READ);
if (error)
path_release(nd);
path_put(&nd->path);
return error;
}
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_inotify_add_watch(int fd, const char __user *path, u32 mask)
ret = create_watch(dev, inode, mask);
mutex_unlock(&dev->up_mutex);
path_release(&nd);
path_put(&nd.path);
fput_and_out:
fput_light(filp, fput_needed);
return ret;