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authorAditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>2016-01-29 02:54:08 -0600
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-02-16 13:04:58 -0500
commitfb3c8315650f89a1993fb3ae3e74e9c7e4a1c9c0 (patch)
tree29772e52c73463ec3bd1f2c3b3c956ceaf143071 /fs/kernfs
parenta0530e087e648263f81a81d62ca020f66b54bcb0 (diff)
kernfs: define kernfs_node_dentry
Add a new kernfs api is added to lookup the dentry for a particular kernfs path. Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/mount.c69
1 files changed, 69 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/mount.c b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
index 8eaf417187f1..b67dbccdaf88 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/namei.h>
#include "kernfs-internal.h"
@@ -62,6 +63,74 @@ struct kernfs_root *kernfs_root_from_sb(struct super_block *sb)
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * find the next ancestor in the path down to @child, where @parent was the
+ * ancestor whose descendant we want to find.
+ *
+ * Say the path is /a/b/c/d. @child is d, @parent is NULL. We return the root
+ * node. If @parent is b, then we return the node for c.
+ * Passing in d as @parent is not ok.
+ */
+static struct kernfs_node *find_next_ancestor(struct kernfs_node *child,
+ struct kernfs_node *parent)
+{
+ if (child == parent) {
+ pr_crit_once("BUG in find_next_ancestor: called with parent == child");
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ while (child->parent != parent) {
+ if (!child->parent)
+ return NULL;
+ child = child->parent;
+ }
+
+ return child;
+}
+
+/**
+ * kernfs_node_dentry - get a dentry for the given kernfs_node
+ * @kn: kernfs_node for which a dentry is needed
+ * @sb: the kernfs super_block
+ */
+struct dentry *kernfs_node_dentry(struct kernfs_node *kn,
+ struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+ struct kernfs_node *knparent = NULL;
+
+ BUG_ON(sb->s_op != &kernfs_sops);
+
+ dentry = dget(sb->s_root);
+
+ /* Check if this is the root kernfs_node */
+ if (!kn->parent)
+ return dentry;
+
+ knparent = find_next_ancestor(kn, NULL);
+ if (WARN_ON(!knparent))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+ do {
+ struct dentry *dtmp;
+ struct kernfs_node *kntmp;
+
+ if (kn == knparent)
+ return dentry;
+ kntmp = find_next_ancestor(kn, knparent);
+ if (WARN_ON(!kntmp))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ mutex_lock(&d_inode(dentry)->i_mutex);
+ dtmp = lookup_one_len(kntmp->name, dentry, strlen(kntmp->name));
+ mutex_unlock(&d_inode(dentry)->i_mutex);
+ dput(dentry);
+ if (IS_ERR(dtmp))
+ return dtmp;
+ knparent = kntmp;
+ dentry = dtmp;
+ } while (true);
+}
+
static int kernfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long magic)
{
struct kernfs_super_info *info = kernfs_info(sb);