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task_struct currently contains two ad-hoc members for use by the VFS: link_count and total_link_count. These are only interesting to fs/namei.c, so exposing them explicitly is poor layering. Incidentally, link_count isn't used anymore, so it can just die. This patches replaces those with a single pointer to 'struct nameidata'. This structure represents the current filename lookup of which there can only be one per process, and is a natural place to store total_link_count. This will allow the current "nameidata" argument to all follow_link operations to be removed as current->nameidata can be used instead in the _very_ few instances that care about it at all. As there are occasional circumstances where pathname lookup can recurse, such as through kern_path_locked, we always save and old current->nameidata (if there is one) when setting a new value, and make sure any active link_counts are preserved. follow_mount and follow_automount now get a 'struct nameidata *' rather than 'int flags' so that they can directly access total_link_count, rather than going through 'current'. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
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