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: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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