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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@ -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);

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@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ struct path {
struct dentry *dentry;
};
extern void path_put(struct path *);
#endif /* _LINUX_PATH_H */