All path-forming primitives boil down to sequence of prepend_name()
on dentries encountered along the way toward root.  Each time we prepend
/ + dentry name to the buffer.  Normally that does exactly what we want,
but there's a corner case when we don't call prepend_name() at all (in case
of __dentry_path() that happens if we are given root dentry).  We obviously
want to end up with "/", rather than "", so this corner case needs to be
handled.

__dentry_path() used to manually put '/' in the end of buffer before
doing anything else, to be overwritten by the first call of prepend_name()
if one happens and to be left in place if we don't call prepend_name() at
all.  That required manually checking that we had space in the buffer
(prepend_name() and prepend() take care of such checks themselves) and lead
to clumsy keeping track of return value.

A better approach is to check if the main loop has added anything
into the buffer and prepend "/" if it hasn't.  A side benefit of using prepend()
is that it does the right thing if we'd already run out of buffer, making
the overflow-handling logics simpler.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/d_path.c | 21 +++++----------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/d_path.c b/fs/d_path.c
index 1a1cf05e7780..b3324ae7cfe2 100644
--- a/fs/d_path.c
+++ b/fs/d_path.c

@@ -329,31 +329,22 @@ char *simple_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
 static char *__dentry_path(const struct dentry *d, char *p, int buflen)
 {
 	const struct dentry *dentry;
-	char *end, *retval;
+	char *end;
 	int len, seq = 0;
-	int error = 0;
-
-	if (buflen < 1)
-		goto Elong;
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 restart:
 	dentry = d;
 	end = p;
 	len = buflen;
-	/* Get '/' right */
-	retval = end-1;
-	*retval = '/';
 	read_seqbegin_or_lock(&rename_lock, &seq);
 	while (!IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
 		const struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
 
 		prefetch(parent);
-		error = prepend_name(&end, &len, &dentry->d_name);
-		if (error)
+		if (unlikely(prepend_name(&end, &len, &dentry->d_name) < 0))
 			break;
 
-		retval = end;
 		dentry = parent;
 	}
 	if (!(seq & 1))

@@ -363,11 +354,9 @@ static char *__dentry_path(const struct dentry *d, char *p, int buflen)
 		goto restart;
 	}
 	done_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq);
-	if (error)
-		goto Elong;
-	return retval;
-Elong:
-	return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
+	if (len == buflen)
+		prepend(&end, &len, "/", 1);
+	return len >= 0 ? end : ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
 }
 
 char *dentry_path_raw(const struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)

-- 
2.11.0