# Re: \[PATCH 01/12\] fs: remove the unused SB\_I\_MULTIROOT flag

- From: Jan Kara \<jack@suse.cz\>
- Date: 2020-09-17 09:41:27 
- List: linux-raid
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-raid/2020/09/188921
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-block/2020/09/188389/t.md

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On Thu 10-09-20 16:48:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The last user of SB_I_MULTIROOT is disappeared with commit f2aedb713c28
> ("NFS: Add fs_context support.")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <redacted>

Nice. You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

								Honza
> ---
>  fs/namei.c         | 4 ++--
>  include/linux/fs.h | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index e99e2a9da0f7de..f1eb8ccd2be958 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -568,8 +568,8 @@ static bool path_connected(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb = mnt->mnt_sb;
>  
> -	/* Bind mounts and multi-root filesystems can have disconnected paths */
> -	if (!(sb->s_iflags & SB_I_MULTIROOT) && (mnt->mnt_root == sb->s_root))
> +	/* Bind mounts can have disconnected paths */
> +	if (mnt->mnt_root == sb->s_root)
>  		return true;
>  
>  	return is_subdir(dentry, mnt->mnt_root);
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 7519ae003a082c..fbd74df5ce5f34 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -1385,7 +1385,6 @@ extern int send_sigurg(struct fown_struct *fown);
>  #define SB_I_CGROUPWB	0x00000001	/* cgroup-aware writeback enabled */
>  #define SB_I_NOEXEC	0x00000002	/* Ignore executables on this fs */
>  #define SB_I_NODEV	0x00000004	/* Ignore devices on this fs */
> -#define SB_I_MULTIROOT	0x00000008	/* Multiple roots to the dentry tree */
>  
>  /* sb->s_iflags to limit user namespace mounts */
>  #define SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE		0x00000010 /* fstype already mounted */
> -- 
> 2.28.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara [ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
```