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 --- fs/open.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/open.c') diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index ee893240d199..dd15711eb658 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -925,6 +925,24 @@ struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_open); +struct file *open_with_fake_path(const struct path *path, int flags, + struct inode *inode, const struct cred *cred) +{ + struct file *f = alloc_empty_file(flags, cred); + if (!IS_ERR(f)) { + int error; + + f->f_path = *path; + error = do_dentry_open(f, inode, NULL); + if (error) { + fput(f); + f = ERR_PTR(error); + } + } + return f; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(open_with_fake_path); + static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *op) { int lookup_flags = 0; -- cgit