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author | Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> | 2007-07-19 01:48:18 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-19 10:04:45 -0700 |
commit | 16f1820028d660d9da9c03b2ae7e98253c11795b (patch) | |
tree | 08939a5d7fcc02c76739a9dce38052da598d74d5 /fs/namei.c | |
parent | b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba (diff) |
fs: introduce vfs_path_lookup
Stackable file systems, among others, frequently need to lookup paths or
path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace
(identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use
lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup
intent along; not passing a lookup intent, for example, can trigger BUG_ON's
when stacking on top of NFSv4.
The first patch introduces a new lookup function to allow lookup starting
from an arbitrary point in the namespace. This approach has been suggested
by Christoph Hellwig [2].
The second patch changes sunrpc to use vfs_path_lookup.
The third patch changes nfsctl.c to use vfs_path_lookup.
The fourth patch marks link_path_walk static.
The fifth, and last patch, unexports path_walk because it is no longer
unnecessary to call it directly, and using the new vfs_path_lookup is
cleaner.
For example, the following snippet of code, looks up "some/path/component"
in a directory pointed to by parent_{dentry,vfsmnt}:
err = vfs_path_lookup(parent_dentry, parent_vfsmnt,
"some/path/component", 0, &nd);
if (!err) {
/* exits */
...
/* once done, release the references */
path_release(&nd);
} else if (err == -ENOENT) {
/* doesn't exist */
} else {
/* other error */
}
VFS functions such as lookup_create can be used on the nameidata structure
to pass the create intent to the file system.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index defaa47c11d4..3bdb29615a9d 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1172,6 +1172,37 @@ int fastcall path_lookup(const char *name, unsigned int flags, return do_path_lookup(AT_FDCWD, name, flags, nd); } +/** + * vfs_path_lookup - lookup a file path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair + * @dentry: pointer to dentry of the base directory + * @mnt: pointer to vfs mount of the base directory + * @name: pointer to file name + * @flags: lookup flags + * @nd: pointer to nameidata + */ +int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, + const char *name, unsigned int flags, + struct nameidata *nd) +{ + int retval; + + /* same as do_path_lookup */ + nd->last_type = LAST_ROOT; + nd->flags = flags; + nd->depth = 0; + + nd->mnt = mntget(mnt); + nd->dentry = dget(dentry); + + retval = path_walk(name, nd); + if (unlikely(!retval && !audit_dummy_context() && nd->dentry && + nd->dentry->d_inode)) + audit_inode(name, nd->dentry->d_inode); + + return retval; + +} + static int __path_lookup_intent_open(int dfd, const char *name, unsigned int lookup_flags, struct nameidata *nd, int open_flags, int create_mode) @@ -2774,6 +2805,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_symlink); EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink); EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink_inode_operations); EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_lookup); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_path_lookup); EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_release); EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_walk); EXPORT_SYMBOL(permission); |