Re: [2.4.19] How to get the path name of a struct dentry

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:32:47PM +0100, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> 
> char*
> full_d_path( struct dentry *dentry,
> 	     struct vfsmount *vfsmnt,
> 	     char *buf, int buflen ) {
>   char *res;
>   struct vfsmount *rootmnt;
>   struct dentry *root;
>   struct namespace *ns;
> 
>   ns=current->namespace;
> /*   get_namespace( ns ); */

you want to keep this.

>   rootmnt=mntget( ns->root );
> /*   put_namespace( ns ); */

do the put once you're completly done with it

> 
>   root = dget(rootmnt->mnt_root);
> 
>   spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
>   res = __d_path(dentry, vfsmnt, root, rootmnt, buf, buflen);
>   spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
> 
>   dput(root);
>   mntput(rootmnt);
>   return res;

looks okay to me otherwise.