From: Al Viro In open_namei() we never use path.mnt or path.dentry after exit: or ok:. Assignment of path.dentry in case of LAST_BIND is dead code and only obfuscates already convoluted function; assignment of path.mnt after __do_follow_link() can be moved down to the place where we set path.dentry. Obviously equivalent transformations, just to clean the air a bit in that region. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/namei.c | 6 ++---- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~namei-fixes-08-19 fs/namei.c --- 25/fs/namei.c~namei-fixes-08-19 Fri May 20 15:42:16 2005 +++ 25-akpm/fs/namei.c Fri May 20 15:42:16 2005 @@ -1526,14 +1526,11 @@ do_link: if (error) goto exit_dput; error = __do_follow_link(&path, nd); - path.mnt = nd->mnt; if (error) return error; nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT; - if (nd->last_type == LAST_BIND) { - path.dentry = nd->dentry; + if (nd->last_type == LAST_BIND) goto ok; - } error = -EISDIR; if (nd->last_type != LAST_NORM) goto exit; @@ -1549,6 +1546,7 @@ do_link: dir = nd->dentry; down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem); path.dentry = __lookup_hash(&nd->last, nd->dentry, nd); + path.mnt = nd->mnt; putname(nd->last.name); goto do_last; } _