Introduce path_put()

* Add path_put() functions for releasing a reference to the dentry and
  vfsmount of a struct path in the right order

* Switch from path_release(nd) to path_put(&nd->path)

* Rename dput_path() to path_put_conditional()

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cifs]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 52fa2f78bb71..24d88e98a626 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ extern int __user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struct nameida
 extern int path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *);
 extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
                            const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);
-extern void path_release(struct nameidata *);
 
 extern int __user_path_lookup_open(const char __user *, unsigned lookup_flags, struct nameidata *nd, int open_flags);
 extern int path_lookup_open(int dfd, const char *name, unsigned lookup_flags, struct nameidata *, int open_flags);
diff --git a/include/linux/path.h b/include/linux/path.h
index cbebdc5c9a60..4d976f959f33 100644
--- a/include/linux/path.h
+++ b/include/linux/path.h
@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ struct path {
         struct dentry *dentry;
 };
 
+extern void path_put(struct path *);
+
 #endif  /* _LINUX_PATH_H */