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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 32 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 34 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); diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index b7dd24917f0d..2e21af0989d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ extern int FASTCALL(__user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struc #define user_path_walk_link(name,nd) \ __user_walk_fd(AT_FDCWD, name, 0, nd) extern int FASTCALL(path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *)); +extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, + const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *); extern int FASTCALL(path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *)); extern int FASTCALL(link_path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *)); extern void path_release(struct nameidata *); |