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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 <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
authored by
Jan Blunck
and committed by
Linus Torvalds
5dd784d0
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+15
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fs/namei.c
+15
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fs/namei.c
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}
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/**
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* path_get - get a reference to a path
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* @path: path to get the reference to
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*
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* Given a path increment the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount.
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*/
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void path_get(struct path *path)
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{
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mntget(path->mnt);
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dget(path->dentry);
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}
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EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_get);
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/**
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* path_put - put a reference to a path
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* @path: path to put the reference to
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*
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if (retval)
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goto fput_fail;
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nd->path.mnt = mntget(file->f_path.mnt);
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nd->path.dentry = dget(dentry);
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nd->path = file->f_path;
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path_get(&file->f_path);
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fput_light(file, fput_needed);
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}