On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:41:27PM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> use vfs_path_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[email protected]>
> ---
> fs/nfsctl.c | 15 +++++----------
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsctl.c
> index c043136..c97df14 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsctl.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsctl.c
> @@ -23,19 +23,14 @@
> static struct file *do_open(char *name, int flags)
> {
> struct nameidata nd;
> + struct vfsmount *mnt;
> int error;
>
> - nd.mnt = do_kern_mount("nfsd", 0, "nfsd", NULL);
> + mnt = do_kern_mount("nfsd", 0, "nfsd", NULL);
> + if (IS_ERR(mnt))
> + return (struct file *)mnt;
>
> - if (IS_ERR(nd.mnt))
> - return (struct file *)nd.mnt;
> -
> - nd.dentry = dget(nd.mnt->mnt_root);
> - nd.last_type = LAST_ROOT;
> - nd.flags = 0;
> - nd.depth = 0;
> -
> - error = path_walk(name, &nd);
> + error = vfs_path_lookup(mnt->mnt_root, mnt, name, 0, &nd);
> if (error)
> return ERR_PTR(error);
I think you're leaking a reference on the mount here as we didn't
do a mntget before. We need to do an additional mntput just after
the lookup to drop the reference from do_kern_mount.
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