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Commit 98dc568b authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Al Viro
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vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry 



In the old times pseudo-filesystems set the name of theroot dentry to
some prefix like "pipe:" and the name of the child dentry to "[123]"
and relied on a hack in __d_path() to replace the preceding slash with
the root's name to get "pipe:[123]".

Then the d_dname() dentry operation was introduced which solved the
same problem without having to pre-fill the name in each dentry.

Currently the following pseudo filesystems exist in the kernel:

perfmon
mtd
anon_inode
bdev
pipe
socket

Of these only perfmon, anon_inode, pipe and socket create
sub-dentries, all of which have now been switched to using d_dname().

bdev and mtd only create inodes.

This means that now the hack to overwrite the slash can be removed, so
for unreachable paths (e.g. within a detached mount) the path string
won't be polluted with garbage.  For these cases a subsequent patch
will add a prefix, indicating that the path is unreachable.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 7ae6bdbd

fs/dcache.c

+9 −3
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1970,9 +1970,15 @@ out: 
	return retval;



global_root:

	retval += 1;	/* hit the slash */

	if (prepend_name(&retval, &buflen, &dentry->d_name) != 0)

		goto Elong;

	/*

	 * Filesystems needing to implement special "root names"

	 * should do so with ->d_dname()

	 */

	if (IS_ROOT(dentry) &&

	    (dentry->d_name.len != 1 || dentry->d_name.name[0] != '/')) {

		WARN(1, "Root dentry has weird name <%.*s>\n",

		     (int) dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);

	}

	root->mnt = vfsmnt;

	root->dentry = dentry;

	goto out;