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* [PATCH] autofs: small cleanup in autofs_getpath()
@ 2018-05-31  6:47 Dan Carpenter
  2018-05-31 11:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2018-05-31  6:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ian Kent
  Cc: Andrew Morton, Mark Brown, Ingo Molnar, NeilBrown,
	Eric W. Biederman, linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

We don't set "*name" so it's slightly nicer to just pass "name" instead
of "&name".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/autofs/waitq.c b/fs/autofs/waitq.c
index 8c858126c751..f6385c6ef0a5 100644
--- a/fs/autofs/waitq.c
+++ b/fs/autofs/waitq.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static void autofs_notify_daemon(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
 }
 
 static int autofs_getpath(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
-			  struct dentry *dentry, char **name)
+			  struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 {
 	struct dentry *root = sbi->sb->s_root;
 	struct dentry *tmp;
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static int autofs_getpath(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
 	unsigned seq;
 
 rename_retry:
-	buf = *name;
+	buf = name;
 	len = 0;
 
 	seq = read_seqbegin(&rename_lock);
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ int autofs_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
 	if (IS_ROOT(dentry) && autofs_type_trigger(sbi->type))
 		qstr.len = sprintf(name, "%p", dentry);
 	else {
-		qstr.len = autofs_getpath(sbi, dentry, &name);
+		qstr.len = autofs_getpath(sbi, dentry, name);
 		if (!qstr.len) {
 			kfree(name);
 			return -ENOENT;

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* Re: [PATCH] autofs: small cleanup in autofs_getpath()
  2018-05-31  6:47 [PATCH] autofs: small cleanup in autofs_getpath() Dan Carpenter
@ 2018-05-31 11:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric W. Biederman @ 2018-05-31 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter
  Cc: Ian Kent, Andrew Morton, Mark Brown, Ingo Molnar, NeilBrown,
	linux-kernel, kernel-janitors

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> writes:

> We don't set "*name" so it's slightly nicer to just pass "name" instead
> of "&name".
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This seems like an obvious and reasonable cleanup.

> diff --git a/fs/autofs/waitq.c b/fs/autofs/waitq.c
> index 8c858126c751..f6385c6ef0a5 100644
> --- a/fs/autofs/waitq.c
> +++ b/fs/autofs/waitq.c
> @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static void autofs_notify_daemon(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
>  }
>  
>  static int autofs_getpath(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
> -			  struct dentry *dentry, char **name)
> +			  struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
>  {
>  	struct dentry *root = sbi->sb->s_root;
>  	struct dentry *tmp;
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ static int autofs_getpath(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
>  	unsigned seq;
>  
>  rename_retry:
> -	buf = *name;
> +	buf = name;
>  	len = 0;
>  
>  	seq = read_seqbegin(&rename_lock);
> @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ int autofs_wait(struct autofs_sb_info *sbi,
>  	if (IS_ROOT(dentry) && autofs_type_trigger(sbi->type))
>  		qstr.len = sprintf(name, "%p", dentry);
>  	else {
> -		qstr.len = autofs_getpath(sbi, dentry, &name);
> +		qstr.len = autofs_getpath(sbi, dentry, name);
>  		if (!qstr.len) {
>  			kfree(name);
>  			return -ENOENT;

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