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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-10-10 15:25:28 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-10-12 20:14:55 -0400
commit91a27b2a756784714e924e5e854b919273082d26 (patch)
tree3913246b7d6e62703ec915f481e3a7159393f0f0 /fs/compat.c
parent8e377d15078a501c4da98471f56396343c407d92 (diff)
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vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to the string. For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled, we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not need to recopy it from userspace. This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it. Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes convenient. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/compat.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/compat.c12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index b7a24d0ca30d..015e1e1f87c6 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -776,16 +776,16 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mount(const char __user * dev_name,
char *kernel_type;
unsigned long data_page;
char *kernel_dev;
- char *dir_page;
+ struct filename *dir;
int retval;
retval = copy_mount_string(type, &kernel_type);
if (retval < 0)
goto out;
- dir_page = getname(dir_name);
- retval = PTR_ERR(dir_page);
- if (IS_ERR(dir_page))
+ dir = getname(dir_name);
+ retval = PTR_ERR(dir);
+ if (IS_ERR(dir))
goto out1;
retval = copy_mount_string(dev_name, &kernel_dev);
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mount(const char __user * dev_name,
}
}
- retval = do_mount(kernel_dev, dir_page, kernel_type,
+ retval = do_mount(kernel_dev, dir->name, kernel_type,
flags, (void*)data_page);
out4:
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mount(const char __user * dev_name,
out3:
kfree(kernel_dev);
out2:
- putname(dir_page);
+ putname(dir);
out1:
kfree(kernel_type);
out: