Commit 181c37b6 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro

namei: saner calling conventions for filename_create()

a) make it reject ERR_PTR() for name
b) make it putname(name) upon return in all other cases.

seriously simplifies the callers...
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 391172c4
......@@ -3403,6 +3403,8 @@ static struct dentry *filename_create(int dfd, struct filename *name,
int error;
bool is_dir = (lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY);
if (IS_ERR(name))
return ERR_CAST(name);
/*
* Note that only LOOKUP_REVAL and LOOKUP_DIRECTORY matter here. Any
* other flags passed in are ignored!
......@@ -3410,8 +3412,10 @@ static struct dentry *filename_create(int dfd, struct filename *name,
lookup_flags &= LOOKUP_REVAL;
error = filename_parentat(dfd, name, lookup_flags, path, &last, &type);
if (error)
if (error) {
putname(name);
return ERR_PTR(error);
}
/*
* Yucky last component or no last component at all?
......@@ -3449,6 +3453,7 @@ static struct dentry *filename_create(int dfd, struct filename *name,
error = err2;
goto fail;
}
putname(name);
return dentry;
fail:
dput(dentry);
......@@ -3459,20 +3464,15 @@ static struct dentry *filename_create(int dfd, struct filename *name,
mnt_drop_write(path->mnt);
out:
path_put(path);
putname(name);
return dentry;
}
struct dentry *kern_path_create(int dfd, const char *pathname,
struct path *path, unsigned int lookup_flags)
{
struct filename *filename = getname_kernel(pathname);
struct dentry *res;
if (IS_ERR(filename))
return ERR_CAST(filename);
res = filename_create(dfd, filename, path, lookup_flags);
putname(filename);
return res;
return filename_create(dfd, getname_kernel(pathname),
path, lookup_flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kern_path_create);
......@@ -3488,13 +3488,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(done_path_create);
struct dentry *user_path_create(int dfd, const char __user *pathname,
struct path *path, unsigned int lookup_flags)
{
struct filename *tmp = getname(pathname);
struct dentry *res;
if (IS_ERR(tmp))
return ERR_CAST(tmp);
res = filename_create(dfd, tmp, path, lookup_flags);
putname(tmp);
return res;
return filename_create(dfd, getname(pathname), path, lookup_flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(user_path_create);
......
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