From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> I'm adding a Btrfs ioctl to write compressed data, and rather than duplicating the checks in rw_verify_area(), let's just export it. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> --- fs/internal.h | 5 ----- fs/read_write.c | 1 + include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h index 315fcd8d237c..94e1831d4c95 100644 --- a/fs/internal.h +++ b/fs/internal.h @@ -160,11 +160,6 @@ extern char *simple_dname(struct dentry *, char *, int); extern void dput_to_list(struct dentry *, struct list_head *); extern void shrink_dentry_list(struct list_head *); -/* - * read_write.c - */ -extern int rw_verify_area(int, struct file *, const loff_t *, size_t); - /* * pipe.c */ diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c index 5bbf587f5bc1..76d0dd85d4f3 100644 --- a/fs/read_write.c +++ b/fs/read_write.c @@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ int rw_verify_area(int read_write, struct file *file, const loff_t *ppos, size_t return security_file_permission(file, read_write == READ ? MAY_READ : MAY_WRITE); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rw_verify_area); static ssize_t new_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos) { diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 997a530ff4e9..a9a1884768e4 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3082,6 +3082,7 @@ extern loff_t fixed_size_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence, loff_t size); extern loff_t no_seek_end_llseek_size(struct file *, loff_t, int, loff_t); extern loff_t no_seek_end_llseek(struct file *, loff_t, int); +extern int rw_verify_area(int, struct file *, const loff_t *, size_t); extern int generic_file_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp); extern int nonseekable_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp); extern int stream_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp); -- 2.23.0