From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:34:47 +0000 (-0500) Subject: take RCU-dependent stuff around exec_permission() into a new helper X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=52094c8a0610cf57920ad4c6c57470ae2ccbbd25;p=linux-beck.git take RCU-dependent stuff around exec_permission() into a new helper Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1d6bc8151553..8c704465f6ce 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1322,6 +1322,18 @@ fail: return PTR_ERR(dentry); } +static inline int may_lookup(struct nameidata *nd) +{ + if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { + int err = exec_permission(nd->inode, IPERM_FLAG_RCU); + if (err != -ECHILD) + return err; + if (nameidata_drop_rcu(nd)) + return -ECHILD; + } + return exec_permission(nd->inode, 0); +} + /* * Name resolution. * This is the basic name resolution function, turning a pathname into @@ -1352,17 +1364,8 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd) unsigned int c; nd->flags |= LOOKUP_CONTINUE; - if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { - err = exec_permission(nd->inode, IPERM_FLAG_RCU); - if (err == -ECHILD) { - if (nameidata_drop_rcu(nd)) - return -ECHILD; - goto exec_again; - } - } else { -exec_again: - err = exec_permission(nd->inode, 0); - } + + err = may_lookup(nd); if (err) break;