vfs: __d_path: dont prepend the name of the root dentry

In the old times pseudo-filesystems set the name of theroot dentry to
some prefix like "pipe:" and the name of the child dentry to "[123]"
and relied on a hack in __d_path() to replace the preceding slash with
the root's name to get "pipe:[123]".

Then the d_dname() dentry operation was introduced which solved the
same problem without having to pre-fill the name in each dentry.

Currently the following pseudo filesystems exist in the kernel:

perfmon
mtd
anon_inode
bdev
pipe
socket

Of these only perfmon, anon_inode, pipe and socket create
sub-dentries, all of which have now been switched to using d_dname().

bdev and mtd only create inodes.

This means that now the hack to overwrite the slash can be removed, so
for unreachable paths (e.g. within a detached mount) the path string
won't be polluted with garbage.  For these cases a subsequent patch
will add a prefix, indicating that the path is unreachable.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 995d08069d2..f1809e6b9fd 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1970,9 +1970,15 @@ out:
 	return retval;
 
 global_root:
-	retval += 1;	/* hit the slash */
-	if (prepend_name(&retval, &buflen, &dentry->d_name) != 0)
-		goto Elong;
+	/*
+	 * Filesystems needing to implement special "root names"
+	 * should do so with ->d_dname()
+	 */
+	if (IS_ROOT(dentry) &&
+	    (dentry->d_name.len != 1 || dentry->d_name.name[0] != '/')) {
+		WARN(1, "Root dentry has weird name <%.*s>\n",
+		     (int) dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
+	}
 	root->mnt = vfsmnt;
 	root->dentry = dentry;
 	goto out;