linux-kernel - [PATCH 18/24] link_path_walk: cleanup

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Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2015 19:13:02 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 18/24] link_path_walk: cleanup - turn goto start; into continue;

From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Deal with skipping leading slashes before what used to be the
recursive call.  That way we can get rid of that goto completely.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/namei.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 975918f..71c9546 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1775,11 +1775,10 @@ static int link_path_walk(const char *name, struct nameidata *nd)
 	struct path next;
 	int err;
 
-start:
 	while (*name=='/')
 		name++;
 	if (!*name)
-		goto OK;
+		return 0;
 
 	/* At this point we know we have a real path component. */
 	for(;;) {
@@ -1878,11 +1877,15 @@ Walked:
 					nd->path = nd->root;
 					path_get(&nd->root);
 					nd->flags |= LOOKUP_JUMPED;
+					while (unlikely(*++s == '/'))
+						;
 				}
 				nd->inode = nd->path.dentry->d_inode;
 				last->name = name;
+				if (!*s)
+					goto OK;
 				name = s;
-				goto start;
+				continue;
 			}
 		}
 		if (!d_can_lookup(nd->path.dentry)) {
-- 
2.1.4

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