Introduce path_get()

This introduces the symmetric function to path_put() for getting a reference
to the dentry and vfsmount of a struct path in the right order.

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 024993535b6f..a6575ca9f9d7 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -363,6 +363,19 @@ int deny_write_access(struct file * file)
 }
 
 /**
+ * path_get - get a reference to a path
+ * @path: path to get the reference to
+ *
+ * Given a path increment the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount.
+ */
+void path_get(struct path *path)
+{
+        mntget(path->mnt);
+        dget(path->dentry);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_get);
+
+/**
  * path_put - put a reference to a path
  * @path: path to put the reference to
  *
@@ -1160,8 +1173,8 @@ static int do_path_lookup(int dfd, const char *name,
                 if (retval)
                         goto fput_fail;
 
-                nd->path.mnt = mntget(file->f_path.mnt);
-                nd->path.dentry = dget(dentry);
+                nd->path = file->f_path;
+                path_get(&file->f_path);
 
                 fput_light(file, fput_needed);
         }