Hi, I happened to come across this discussion. I am having a similar issue. I am using Rhel7-3.10.0-123 kernel. I tried all the options that are mentioned above and none of the api's including kern_path() return valid dentry value. My requirement is to fetch directory name from filepath. Can anybody suggest a work-around for this ? _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies