Josef 'Jeff' Sipek 16f1820028
fs: introduce vfs_path_lookup ...
Stackable file systems, among others, frequently need to lookup paths or
path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace
(identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use
lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup
intent along; not passing a lookup intent, for example, can trigger BUG_ON's
when stacking on top of NFSv4.
The first patch introduces a new lookup function to allow lookup starting
from an arbitrary point in the namespace. This approach has been suggested
by Christoph Hellwig [2].
The second patch changes sunrpc to use vfs_path_lookup.
The third patch changes nfsctl.c to use vfs_path_lookup.
The fourth patch marks link_path_walk static.
The fifth, and last patch, unexports path_walk because it is no longer
unnecessary to call it directly, and using the new vfs_path_lookup is
cleaner.
For example, the following snippet of code, looks up "some/path/component"
in a directory pointed to by parent_{dentry,vfsmnt}:
err = vfs_path_lookup(parent_dentry, parent_vfsmnt,
"some/path/component", 0, &nd);
if (!err) {
/* exits */
...
/* once done, release the references */
path_release(&nd);
} else if (err == -ENOENT) {
/* doesn't exist */
} else {
/* other error */
}
VFS functions such as lookup_create can be used on the nameidata structure
to pass the create intent to the file system.
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu >
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk >
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de >
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no >
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de >
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com >
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org >
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org >
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