devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:51:04 +0000 (17:51 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:32:08 +0000 (13:32 -0500)
The code makes more sense here and things are just clearer.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
fs/devpts/inode.c

index f582a4be1a7a3e1d1142366d3f275af0c9311e7b..f3277f711b2580b298b57d7ccb3d2bb73caa575a 100644 (file)
@@ -425,11 +425,19 @@ devpts_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
        set_nlink(inode, 2);
 
        s->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
-       if (s->s_root)
-               return 0;
+       if (!s->s_root) {
+               pr_err("get root dentry failed\n");
+               goto fail;
+       }
 
-       pr_err("get root dentry failed\n");
+       error = mknod_ptmx(s);
+       if (error)
+               goto fail_dput;
 
+       return 0;
+fail_dput:
+       dput(s->s_root);
+       s->s_root = NULL;
 fail:
        return error;
 }
@@ -456,11 +464,6 @@ static struct dentry *devpts_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
                        goto out_undo_sget;
                s->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
        }
-
-       error = mknod_ptmx(s);
-       if (error)
-               goto out_undo_sget;
-
        return dget(s->s_root);
 
 out_undo_sget: