3 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index bb0eb5bb9a0a..1c7f2c61416b 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ void audit_log_untrustedstring(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *string)
 
 /* This is a helper-function to print the escaped d_path */
 void audit_log_d_path(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *prefix,
-                      struct path *path)
+                      const struct path *path)
 {
         char *p, *pathname;
 
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index c6877fe9a831..1ece8e20fdb5 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1472,7 +1472,6 @@ static int cgroup_get_rootdir(struct super_block *sb)
 
         struct inode *inode =
                 cgroup_new_inode(S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO | S_IWUSR, sb);
-        struct dentry *dentry;
 
         if (!inode)
                 return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1481,12 +1480,9 @@ static int cgroup_get_rootdir(struct super_block *sb)
         inode->i_op = &cgroup_dir_inode_operations;
         /* directories start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */
         inc_nlink(inode);
-        dentry = d_alloc_root(inode);
-        if (!dentry) {
-                iput(inode);
+        sb->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
+        if (!sb->s_root)
                 return -ENOMEM;
-        }
-        sb->s_root = dentry;
         /* for everything else we want ->d_op set */
         sb->s_d_op = &cgroup_dops;
         return 0;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index c5a01873567d..859fae6b1825 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ void *trace_seq_reserve(struct trace_seq *s, size_t len)
         return ret;
 }
 
-int trace_seq_path(struct trace_seq *s, struct path *path)
+int trace_seq_path(struct trace_seq *s, const struct path *path)
 {
         unsigned char *p;