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/

>   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>

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