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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2017-07-04 17:25:22 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-07-06 03:27:09 -0400
commitcdf01226b26e98c79c13b335fbe0cbbbe850cf44 (patch)
tree979318b9a3b69b03b39f6e66d3ffa75b82565ddc /fs/pipe.c
parentee416bcdba9975065de571e09de1f7ebfde2156a (diff)
VFS: Provide empty name qstr
Provide an empty name (ie. "") qstr for general use. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 73b84baf58f8..97e5be897753 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -739,13 +739,12 @@ int create_pipe_files(struct file **res, int flags)
struct inode *inode = get_pipe_inode();
struct file *f;
struct path path;
- static struct qstr name = { .name = "" };
if (!inode)
return -ENFILE;
err = -ENOMEM;
- path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb, &name);
+ path.dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb, &empty_name);
if (!path.dentry)
goto err_inode;
path.mnt = mntget(pipe_mnt);