I need an API that allows me to obtain a clone of the current file
pointer to pass in to an exec handler. I've labelled this as an
internal API because I can't see how it would be useful outside of the
fs subsystem. The use case will be a persistent binfmt_misc handler.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/internal.h | 1 +
fs/open.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index b71deee..c8ca0c9 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ extern long do_handle_open(int mountdirfd,
struct file_handle __user *ufh, int open_flag);
extern int open_check_o_direct(struct file *f);
extern int vfs_open(const struct path *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
+extern struct file *filp_clone_open(struct file *);
/*
* inode.c
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 55bdc75..6c21c14 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1004,6 +1004,26 @@ struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root);
+struct file *filp_clone_open(struct file *oldfile)
+{
+ struct file *file;
+ int retval;
+
+ file = get_empty_filp();
+ if (IS_ERR(file))
+ return file;
+
+ file->f_flags = oldfile->f_flags;
+ retval = vfs_open(&oldfile->f_path, file, current_cred());
+ if (retval) {
+ fput(file);
+ return ERR_PTR(retval);
+ }
+
+ return file;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(filp_clone_open);
+
long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
{
struct open_flags op;
--
2.6.2
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