From 2abc77af89e17582db9039293c8ac881c8c96d79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:18:42 -0400 Subject: new helper: open_with_fake_path() open a file by given inode, faking ->f_path. Use with shitloads of caution - at the very least you'd damn better make sure that some dentry alias of that inode is pinned down by the path in question. Again, this is no general-purpose interface and I hope it will eventually go away. Right now overlayfs wants something like that, but nothing else should. Any out-of-tree code with bright idea of using this one *will* eventually get hurt, with zero notice and great delight on my part. I refuse to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), especially in situations when it's really EXPORT_SYMBOL_DONT_USE_IT(), but don't take that export as "you are welcome to use it". Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 05f34726e29c..4ff7b7012186 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2424,6 +2424,8 @@ extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t); extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, const char *, int, umode_t); extern struct file * dentry_open(const struct path *, int, const struct cred *); +extern struct file * open_with_fake_path(const struct path *, int, + struct inode*, const struct cred *); static inline struct file *file_clone_open(struct file *file) { return dentry_open(&file->f_path, file->f_flags, file->f_cred); -- cgit v1.2.3