[RFC][PATCH v3 55/55] fs/namei.c: kill follow_mount()

[Al Viro]

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

the only remaining caller should be using follow_down() anyway

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/namei.c | 18 +-----------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f247eca119f1..d9fd5fd43ca1 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1414,22 +1414,6 @@ static bool choose_mountpoint(struct mount *m, const struct path *root,
 }
 
 /*
- * Skip to top of mountpoint pile in refwalk mode for follow_dotdot()
- */
-static void follow_mount(struct path *path)
-{
-	while (d_mountpoint(path->dentry)) {
-		struct vfsmount *mounted = lookup_mnt(path);
-		if (!mounted)
-			break;
-		dput(path->dentry);
-		mntput(path->mnt);
-		path->mnt = mounted;
-		path->dentry = dget(mounted->mnt_root);
-	}
-}
-
-/*
  * This looks up the name in dcache and possibly revalidates the found dentry.
  * NULL is returned if the dentry does not exist in the cache.
  */
@@ -2668,7 +2652,7 @@ int path_pts(struct path *path)
 
 	path->dentry = child;
 	dput(parent);
-	follow_mount(path);
+	follow_down(path);
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.11.0