commit 5b857119538daac7118c1364d7ff3613f12b84d3
author Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tue Apr 07 11:53:49 2009 -0400
committer Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Thu Jun 11 21:35:59 2009 -0400
tree 18b85315f6e0e6b4f0c906cf0601593d8df97422
parent 2a737871108de9ba8930f7650d549f1383767f8b

Make vfs_path_lookup() use starting point as root

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fs/namei.c

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 88baaf2..4379ef9 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1123,21 +1123,20 @@
 	nd->last_type = LAST_ROOT;
 	nd->flags = flags;
 	nd->depth = 0;
-	nd->root.mnt = NULL;
 
 	nd->path.dentry = dentry;
 	nd->path.mnt = mnt;
 	path_get(&nd->path);
+	nd->root = nd->path;
+	path_get(&nd->root);
 
 	retval = path_walk(name, nd);
 	if (unlikely(!retval && !audit_dummy_context() && nd->path.dentry &&
 				nd->path.dentry->d_inode))
 		audit_inode(name, nd->path.dentry);
 
-	if (nd->root.mnt) {
-		path_put(&nd->root);
-		nd->root.mnt = NULL;
-	}
+	path_put(&nd->root);
+	nd->root.mnt = NULL;
 
 	return retval;
 }