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author | Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> | 2007-07-19 12:48:18 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-19 21:04:45 +0400 |
commit | 16f1820028d660d9da9c03b2ae7e98253c11795b (patch) | |
tree | 08939a5d7fcc02c76739a9dce38052da598d74d5 /include/linux | |
parent | b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba (diff) | |
download | linux-16f1820028d660d9da9c03b2ae7e98253c11795b.tar.xz |
fs: introduce vfs_path_lookup
Stackable file systems, among others, frequently need to lookup paths or
path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace
(identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use
lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup
intent along; not passing a lookup intent, for example, can trigger BUG_ON's
when stacking on top of NFSv4.
The first patch introduces a new lookup function to allow lookup starting
from an arbitrary point in the namespace. This approach has been suggested
by Christoph Hellwig [2].
The second patch changes sunrpc to use vfs_path_lookup.
The third patch changes nfsctl.c to use vfs_path_lookup.
The fourth patch marks link_path_walk static.
The fifth, and last patch, unexports path_walk because it is no longer
unnecessary to call it directly, and using the new vfs_path_lookup is
cleaner.
For example, the following snippet of code, looks up "some/path/component"
in a directory pointed to by parent_{dentry,vfsmnt}:
err = vfs_path_lookup(parent_dentry, parent_vfsmnt,
"some/path/component", 0, &nd);
if (!err) {
/* exits */
...
/* once done, release the references */
path_release(&nd);
} else if (err == -ENOENT) {
/* doesn't exist */
} else {
/* other error */
}
VFS functions such as lookup_create can be used on the nameidata structure
to pass the create intent to the file system.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index b7dd24917f0d..2e21af0989d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ extern int FASTCALL(__user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struc #define user_path_walk_link(name,nd) \ __user_walk_fd(AT_FDCWD, name, 0, nd) extern int FASTCALL(path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *)); +extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, + const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *); extern int FASTCALL(path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *)); extern int FASTCALL(link_path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *)); extern void path_release(struct nameidata *); |