From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Szeredi Subject: [PATCH v2 01/35] vfs: add path_open() Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 10:37:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20180507083807.28792-2-mszeredi@redhat.com> References: <20180507083807.28792-1-mszeredi@redhat.com> Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180507083807.28792-1-mszeredi@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro List-Id: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org Currently opening an overlay file results in: - the real file on the underlying layer being opened - f_path being set to the overlay {mount, dentry} pair This patch adds a new helper that allows the above to be explicitly performed. I.e. it's the same as dentry_open(), except the underlying inode to open is given as a separate argument. This is in preparation for stacking I/O operations on overlay files. Later, when implicit opening is removed, dentry_open() can be implemented by just calling path_open(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- fs/open.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index c5ee7cd60424..d0bf7f061a1a 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -906,6 +906,37 @@ int vfs_open(const struct path *path, struct file *file, return do_dentry_open(file, d_backing_inode(dentry), NULL, cred); } +/** + * path_open() - Open an inode by a particular name. + * @path: The name of the file. + * @flags: The O_ flags used to open this file. + * @inode: The inode to open. + * @cred: The task's credentials used when opening this file. + * + * Context: Process context. + * Return: A pointer to a struct file or an IS_ERR pointer. Cannot return NULL. + */ +struct file *path_open(const struct path *path, int flags, struct inode *inode, + const struct cred *cred) +{ + struct file *file; + int retval; + + file = get_empty_filp(); + if (IS_ERR(file)) + return file; + + file->f_flags = flags; + file->f_path = *path; + retval = do_dentry_open(file, inode, NULL, cred); + if (retval) { + put_filp(file); + return ERR_PTR(retval); + } + return file; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_open); + struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags, const struct cred *cred) { diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 8007a31c4d3c..d97a661342c8 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2401,6 +2401,8 @@ 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 *path_open(const struct path *, int, struct inode *, + const struct cred *); extern int filp_close(struct file *, fl_owner_t id); extern struct filename *getname_flags(const char __user *, int, int *); -- 2.14.3