Now that we know the sysfs tree structure cannot change under us
simplfy sysfs_get_dentry.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 fs/sysfs/dir.c |   48 ++++++------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index e0f49b7..a9bdb12 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -784,71 +784,35 @@ struct dentry *sysfs_get_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 {
        struct sysfs_dirent *cur;
        struct dentry *parent_dentry, *dentry;
-       int i, depth;
 
        /* Find the first parent which has valid dentry.
         */
-       mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
- restart:
-
        dentry = NULL;
-       depth = 0;
        cur = sd;
        while (!(dentry = __sysfs_get_dentry(sysfs_sb, cur))) {
                if (cur->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED) {
                        dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-                       depth = 0;
                        break;
                }
                cur = cur->s_parent;
-               depth++;
        }
 
        /* from the found dentry, look up depth times */
-       while (depth--) {
-               /* find and get depth'th ancestor */
-               for (cur = sd, i = 0; cur && i < depth; i++)
+       while (dentry->d_fsdata != sd) {
+               /* Find the first ancestor I have not looked up */
+               cur = sd;
+               while (cur->s_parent != dentry->d_fsdata)
                        cur = cur->s_parent;
 
-               /* This can happen if tree structure was modified due
-                * to move/rename.  Restart.
-                */
-               if (i != depth) {
-                       dput(dentry);
-                       goto restart;
-               }
-
-               sysfs_get(cur);
-
-               mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
-
                /* look it up */
                parent_dentry = dentry;
                dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent_dentry,
                                             strlen(cur->s_name));
                dput(parent_dentry);
 
-               if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
-                       sysfs_put(cur);
-                       return dentry;
-               }
-
-               mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
-
-               /* This, again, can happen if tree structure has
-                * changed and we looked up the wrong thing.  Restart.
-                */
-               if (dentry->d_fsdata != cur) {
-                       dput(dentry);
-                       sysfs_put(cur);
-                       goto restart;
-               }
-
-
-               sysfs_put(cur);
+               if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+                       break;
        }
-
-       mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
        return dentry;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.1.1.181.g2de0

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