On Tue, 23 May 2017 10:51:26 -0500
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 05/23/2017 09:32 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > The logic to open a path currently sits between local_open_nofollow() and
> > the relative_openat_nofollow() helper, which has no other user.
> > 
> > For the sake of clarity, this patch moves all the code of the helper into
> > its unique caller. While here we also:
> > - drop the code to skip leading "/" because the backend isn't supposed to
> >   pass anything but relative paths without consecutive slashes. The assert()
> >   is kept because we really don't want a buggy backend to pass   an absolute  
> 
> odd spacing
> 
> >   path to openat().
> > - use strchrnul() to get a simpler code. This is ok since virtfs if for  
> 
> s/if/is/
> 

Yeah, I spotted these two nits just after posting the series, as usual :)

I'll fix them before merging.

> >   linux+glibc hosts only.
> > - don't dup() the initial directory and add an assert() to ensure we don't
> >   return the global mountfd to the caller. BTW, this would mean that the
> >   caller passed an empty path, which isn't supposed to happen either.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> > ---  
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
>