new helper: alloc_file_clone()

alloc_file_clone(old_file, mode, ops): create a new struct file with
->f_path equal to that of old_file.  pipe converted.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 6b3723909342..78b067ddb386 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -211,6 +211,17 @@ struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *inode, struct vfsmount *mnt,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_file_pseudo);
 
+struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *base, int flags,
+				const struct file_operations *fops)
+{
+	struct file *f = alloc_file(&base->f_path, flags, fops);
+	if (!IS_ERR(f)) {
+		path_get(&f->f_path);
+		f->f_mapping = base->f_mapping;
+	}
+	return f;
+}
+
 /* the real guts of fput() - releasing the last reference to file
  */
 static void __fput(struct file *file)