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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>2010-08-10 11:41:36 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2010-08-11 00:28:20 -0400
commitf7ad3c6be90809b53b7f0ae9d4eaa45ce2564a79 (patch)
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parent542ce7a9bc6b3838832ae0f4f8de30c667af8ff3 (diff)
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vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd
Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd from the supplied fs_struct. get_fs_root() get_fs_pwd() get_fs_root_and_pwd() Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 66c4f7e781c..7972e51ccc0 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2213,10 +2213,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pivot_root, const char __user *, new_root,
goto out1;
}
- read_lock(&current->fs->lock);
- root = current->fs->root;
- path_get(&current->fs->root);
- read_unlock(&current->fs->lock);
+ get_fs_root(current->fs, &root);
down_write(&namespace_sem);
mutex_lock(&old.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
error = -EINVAL;