linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/14] d_path: prepend_path() is unlikely to return non-zero

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Message-Id: <20210519004901.3829541-13-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 19 May 2021 00:49:00 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Jia He <justin.he@....com>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 13/14] d_path: prepend_path() is unlikely to return non-zero

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

diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
index ba629879a4bf..8a9cd44f6689 100644
--- a/fs/d_path.c
+++ b/fs/d_path.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ char *__d_path(const struct path *path,
 	DECLARE_BUFFER(b, buf, buflen);
 
 	prepend(&b, "", 1);
-	if (prepend_path(path, root, &b) > 0)
+	if (unlikely(prepend_path(path, root, &b) > 0))
 		return NULL;
 	return extract_string(&b);
 }
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ char *d_absolute_path(const struct path *path,
 	DECLARE_BUFFER(b, buf, buflen);
 
 	prepend(&b, "", 1);
-	if (prepend_path(path, &root, &b) > 1)
+	if (unlikely(prepend_path(path, &root, &b) > 1))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	return extract_string(&b);
 }
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getcwd, char __user *, buf, unsigned long, size)
 		DECLARE_BUFFER(b, page, PATH_MAX);
 
 		prepend(&b, "", 1);
-		if (prepend_path(&pwd, &root, &b) > 0)
+		if (unlikely(prepend_path(&pwd, &root, &b) > 0))
 			prepend(&b, "(unreachable)", 13);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
-- 
2.11.0