Simplify devpts_pty_kill
authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:43:27 +0000 (10:43 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:51:43 +0000 (09:51 -0700)
When creating a new pty, save the pty's inode in the tty->driver_data.
Use this inode in pty_kill() to identify the devpts instance. Since
we now have the inode for the pty, we can skip get_node() lookup and
remove the unused get_node().

TODO:
- check if the mutex_lock is needed in pty_kill().

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/devpts/inode.c

index 50e885f84bb0d6627113c8f7fec2a23266d83082..a70d5d0890c7311ba0a0b555f6c977b38eddaa4c 100644 (file)
@@ -170,14 +170,6 @@ static struct file_system_type devpts_fs_type = {
  * to the System V naming convention
  */
 
-static struct dentry *get_node(int num)
-{
-       char s[12];
-       struct dentry *root = devpts_root;
-       mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);
-       return lookup_one_len(s, root, sprintf(s, "%d", num));
-}
-
 int devpts_new_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode)
 {
        int index;
@@ -235,6 +227,7 @@ int devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_inode, struct tty_struct *tty)
        inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
        init_special_inode(inode, S_IFCHR|config.mode, device);
        inode->i_private = tty;
+       tty->driver_data = inode;
 
        sprintf(s, "%d", number);
 
@@ -262,18 +255,20 @@ struct tty_struct *devpts_get_tty(struct inode *pts_inode, int number)
 
 void devpts_pty_kill(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
-       int number = tty->index;
-       struct dentry *dentry = get_node(number);
+       struct inode *inode = tty->driver_data;
+       struct dentry *dentry;
 
-       if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
-               struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
-               if (inode) {
-                       inode->i_nlink--;
-                       d_delete(dentry);
-                       dput(dentry);
-               }
+       BUG_ON(inode->i_rdev == MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, PTMX_MINOR));
+
+       mutex_lock(&devpts_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
+
+       dentry = d_find_alias(inode);
+       if (dentry && !IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+               inode->i_nlink--;
+               d_delete(dentry);
                dput(dentry);
        }
+
        mutex_unlock(&devpts_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
 }