Re: [PATCH] fs: Eliminate a local variable to make the code more clear

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 01:06:56PM +0000, Hao Lee wrote:
> ping
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 03:21:28PM +0000, Hao Lee wrote:
> > The dentry local variable is introduced in 'commit 84d17192d2afd ("get
> > rid of full-hash scan on detaching vfsmounts")' to reduce the length of
> > some long statements for example
> > mutex_lock(&path->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex). We have already used
> > inode_lock(dentry->d_inode) to do the same thing now, and its length is
> > acceptable. Furthermore, it seems not concise that assign path->dentry
> > to local variable dentry in the statement before goto. So, this function
> > would be more clear if we eliminate the local variable dentry.

How does it make the function more clear?  More specifically, what
analysis of behaviour is simplified by that?