cgroup: implement cgroup_get_from_path() and expose cgroup_put()

Implement cgroup_get_from_path() using kernfs_walk_and_get() which
obtains a default hierarchy cgroup from its path.  This will be used
to allow cgroup path based matching from outside cgroup proper -
e.g. networking and perf.

v2: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_get_from_path).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index b5ee2c4210f9..4c3ffab81ba7 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *cgroup_get_e_css(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_tryget_online_from_dir(struct dentry *dentry,
 						       struct cgroup_subsys *ss);
 
+struct cgroup *cgroup_get_from_path(const char *path);
+
 int cgroup_attach_task_all(struct task_struct *from, struct task_struct *);
 int cgroup_transfer_tasks(struct cgroup *to, struct cgroup *from);
 
@@ -351,6 +353,11 @@ static inline void css_put_many(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, unsigned int n)
 		percpu_ref_put_many(&css->refcnt, n);
 }
 
+static inline void cgroup_put(struct cgroup *cgrp)
+{
+	css_put(&cgrp->self);
+}
+
 /**
  * task_css_set_check - obtain a task's css_set with extra access conditions
  * @task: the task to obtain css_set for