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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2019-10-31 01:21:58 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2019-11-15 13:49:04 -0500 |
| commit | 6c2d4798a8d16cf4f3a28c3cd4af4f1dcbbb4d04 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b14c83985da30129911f7ad455e4cc587690e58 /include/linux/namei.h | |
| parent | d41efb522e902364ab09c782d511c1bedc388ddd (diff) | |
new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked()
Most of the callers of lookup_one_len_unlocked() treat negatives are
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT). Provide a helper that would do just that. Note
that a pinned positive dentry remains positive - it's ->d_inode is
stable, etc.; a pinned _negative_ dentry can become positive at any
point as long as you are not holding its parent at least shared.
So using lookup_one_len_unlocked() needs to be careful;
lookup_positive_unlocked() is safer and that's what the callers
end up open-coding anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/namei.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 397a08ade6a2..7fe7b87a3ded 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ extern int kern_path_mountpoint(int, const char *, struct path *, unsigned int); extern struct dentry *try_lookup_one_len(const char *, struct dentry *, int); extern struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *, struct dentry *, int); extern struct dentry *lookup_one_len_unlocked(const char *, struct dentry *, int); +extern struct dentry *lookup_positive_unlocked(const char *, struct dentry *, int); extern int follow_down_one(struct path *); extern int follow_down(struct path *); |