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authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>2017-01-31 14:53:17 -0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2017-02-02 10:20:16 -0700
commita7c5437b0bbec5165df6eb1efc5e37dc40b9e05d (patch)
treed37659f3ab5b8baccafe06442ca3fa6a1048503c /fs/debugfs
parent0dba1314d4f81115dce711292ec7981d17231064 (diff)
debugfs: add debugfs_lookup()
We don't always have easy access to the dentry of a file or directory we created in debugfs. Add a helper which allows us to get a dentry we previously created. The motivation for this change is a problem with blktrace and the blk-mq debugfs entries introduced in 07e4fead45e6 ("blk-mq: create debugfs directory tree"). Namely, in some cases, the directory that blktrace needs to create may already exist, but in other cases, it may not. We _could_ rely on a bunch of implied knowledge to decide whether to create the directory or not, but it's much cleaner on our end to just look it up. Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/debugfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/debugfs/inode.c36
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index f17fcf89e18e..7fb1732a3630 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -248,6 +248,42 @@ static struct file_system_type debug_fs_type = {
};
MODULE_ALIAS_FS("debugfs");
+/**
+ * debugfs_lookup() - look up an existing debugfs file
+ * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to look up.
+ * @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry of the file.
+ *
+ * This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds. If the file
+ * doesn't exist or an error occurs, %NULL will be returned. The returned
+ * dentry must be passed to dput() when it is no longer needed.
+ *
+ * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be
+ * returned.
+ */
+struct dentry *debugfs_lookup(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry;
+
+ if (IS_ERR(parent))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (!parent)
+ parent = debugfs_mount->mnt_root;
+
+ inode_lock(d_inode(parent));
+ dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
+ inode_unlock(d_inode(parent));
+
+ if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+ return NULL;
+ if (!d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
+ dput(dentry);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+ return dentry;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_lookup);
+
static struct dentry *start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
{
struct dentry *dentry;