With this change, it's guaranteed that cgroup_path() won't see NULL
cgrp->dentry, and thus we can remove the NULL check in it.

(Well, it's not true, because dummptop.dentry is always NULL)

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lize...@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index a893985..23a0ce1 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ int cgroup_path(const struct cgroup *cgrp, char *buf, int 
buflen)
        rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_read_lock_held() || cgroup_lock_is_held(),
                           "cgroup_path() called without proper locking");
 
-       if (!dentry || cgrp == dummytop) {
+       if (cgrp == dummytop) {
                /*
                 * Inactive subsystems have no dentry for their root
                 * cgroup
@@ -4150,6 +4150,9 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct 
dentry *dentry,
 
        init_cgroup_housekeeping(cgrp);
 
+       dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp;
+       cgrp->dentry = dentry;
+
        cgrp->parent = parent;
        cgrp->root = parent->root;
        cgrp->top_cgroup = parent->top_cgroup;
@@ -4187,8 +4190,6 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct 
dentry *dentry,
        lockdep_assert_held(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
        /* allocation complete, commit to creation */
-       dentry->d_fsdata = cgrp;
-       cgrp->dentry = dentry;
        list_add_tail(&cgrp->allcg_node, &root->allcg_list);
        list_add_tail_rcu(&cgrp->sibling, &cgrp->parent->children);
        root->number_of_cgroups++;
-- 
1.8.0.2

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