This will function like user_path_at, but does not do the getname and putname, leaving that to the caller. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/namei.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index dc792e5..83a6f46 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2092,20 +2092,31 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len) return __lookup_hash(&this, base, 0); } +int kern_path_at(int dfd, const char *name, unsigned flags, struct path *path) +{ + struct nameidata nd; + int err; + + BUG_ON(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT); + + err = do_path_lookup(dfd, name, flags, &nd); + if (!err) + *path = nd.path; + + return err; +} + int user_path_at_empty(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags, struct path *path, int *empty) { - struct nameidata nd; char *tmp = getname_flags(name, flags, empty); - int err = PTR_ERR(tmp); - if (!IS_ERR(tmp)) { - - BUG_ON(flags & LOOKUP_PARENT); + int err; - err = do_path_lookup(dfd, tmp, flags, &nd); + if (IS_ERR(tmp)) { + err = PTR_ERR(tmp); + } else { + err = kern_path_at(dfd, tmp, flags, path); putname(tmp); - if (!err) - *path = nd.path; } return err; } diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 4bf19d8..482f87f 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND}; #define LOOKUP_ROOT 0x2000 #define LOOKUP_EMPTY 0x4000 +extern int kern_path_at(int, const char *, unsigned, struct path *); extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *); extern int user_path_at_empty(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *, int *empty); -- 1.7.11.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html