From d181146572c4fa9af2a068b967cb53dcac7da944 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:49:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new helper - kern_path() Analog of lookup_path(), takes struct path *. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 4ea63ed5e791..4a56f9b59e8c 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1106,6 +1106,15 @@ int path_lookup(const char *name, unsigned int flags, return do_path_lookup(AT_FDCWD, name, flags, nd); } +int kern_path(const char *name, unsigned int flags, struct path *path) +{ + struct nameidata nd; + int res = do_path_lookup(AT_FDCWD, name, flags, &nd); + if (!res) + *path = nd.path; + return res; +} + /** * vfs_path_lookup - lookup a file path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair * @dentry: pointer to dentry of the base directory @@ -2855,6 +2864,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_symlink); EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink); EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink_inode_operations); EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_lookup); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kern_path); EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_path_lookup); EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_permission); EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_permission); -- cgit v1.2.3