sysfs: simply sysfs_get_dentry

Now that we know the sysfs tree structure cannot change under us and
sysfs shadow support is dropped, sysfs_get_dentry() can be simplified
greatly.  It can just look up from the root and there's no need to
retry on failure.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

fs/sysfs/dir.c

@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ static void sysfs_unlink_sibling(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
  *	@sd: sysfs_dirent of interest
  *
  *	Get dentry for @sd.  Dentry is looked up if currently not
- *	present.  This function climbs sysfs_dirent tree till it
- *	reaches a sysfs_dirent with valid dentry attached and descends
- *	down from there looking up dentry for each step.
+ *	present.  This function descends from the root looking up
+ *	dentry for each step.
  *
  *	LOCKING:
  *	mutex_lock(sysfs_rename_mutex)
@@ -90,86 +89,28 @@ static void sysfs_unlink_sibling(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
  */
 struct dentry *sysfs_get_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 {
-	struct sysfs_dirent *cur;
-	struct dentry *parent_dentry, *dentry;
-	int i, depth;
+	struct dentry *dentry = dget(sysfs_sb->s_root);
 
-	/* Find the first parent which has valid s_dentry and get the
-	 * dentry.
-	 */
-	mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
- restart0:
-	spin_lock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
- restart1:
-	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
-
-	dentry = NULL;
-	depth = 0;
-	cur = sd;
-	while (!cur->s_dentry || !cur->s_dentry->d_inode) {
-		if (cur->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED) {
-			dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-			depth = 0;
-			break;
-		}
-		cur = cur->s_parent;
-		depth++;
-	}
-	if (!IS_ERR(dentry))
-		dentry = dget_locked(cur->s_dentry);
+	while (dentry->d_fsdata != sd) {
+		struct sysfs_dirent *cur;
+		struct dentry *parent;
 
-	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
-	spin_unlock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
-
-	/* 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++)
+		/* find the first ancestor which hasn't been 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 restart0;
-		}
-
-		sysfs_get(cur);
-
-		mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
-
 		/* look it up */
-		parent_dentry = dentry;
-		mutex_lock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
-		dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent_dentry,
+		parent = dentry;
+		mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
+		dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent,
 					     strlen(cur->s_name));
-		mutex_unlock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
-		dput(parent_dentry);
-
-		if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
-			sysfs_put(cur);
-			return dentry;
-		}
+		mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
+		dput(parent);
 
-		mutex_lock(&sysfs_mutex);
-		spin_lock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
-
-		/* This, again, can happen if tree structure has
-		 * changed and we looked up the wrong thing.  Restart.
-		 */
-		if (cur->s_dentry != dentry) {
-			dput(dentry);
-			sysfs_put(cur);
-			goto restart1;
-		}
-
-		spin_unlock(&sysfs_assoc_lock);
-
-		sysfs_put(cur);
+		if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+			break;
 	}
-
-	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
 	return dentry;
 }