From 5b6ca027d85b7438c84b78a54ccdc2e53f2909cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:04:47 -0500 Subject: reduce vfs_path_lookup() to do_path_lookup() New lookup flag: LOOKUP_ROOT. nd->root is set (and held) by caller, path_init() starts walking from that place and all pathname resolution machinery never drops nd->root if that flag is set. That turns vfs_path_lookup() into a special case of do_path_lookup() *and* gets us down to 3 callers of link_path_walk(), making it finally feasible to rip the handling of trailing symlink out of link_path_walk(). That will not only simply the living hell out of it, but make life much simpler for unionfs merge. Trailing symlink handling will become iterative, which is a good thing for stack footprint in a lot of situations as well. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/namei.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/namei.h') diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 72ffd62ac736..83cd6e5cd7dc 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND}; #define LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET 0x0800 #define LOOKUP_JUMPED 0x1000 +#define LOOKUP_ROOT 0x2000 extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *); -- cgit v1.2.3