On Tue, 2016-10-11 at 11:04 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ian Kent <ra...@themaw.net> writes: > > > For the autofs module to be able to reliably check if a dentry is a > > mountpoint in a multiple namespace environment the ->d_manage() dentry > > operation will need to take a path argument instead of a dentry. > > Taking a quick look overall I see no issues with this series. Overall > it seems straight forward. > > On the nit side I expect saying const struct path * in the functions > that now take a struct path would be useful. > > I suspect it would also be useful to say > const struct path *path; > path = &file->f_path; > > In the one part of the code where you do that. Instead of copying the > path out of the struct file. > > Overall I expect that will keep down bugs at no reduction in usability. > Just a statement that the struct path won't change when it is passed > to various functions.
Thanks Eric, that's a good suggestion for a follow up patch, will do. Ian
