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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2018-06-17 21:15:10 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2018-07-12 17:04:28 +0300
commit183266f26f45a47958afb5c9aa1b3d4651e2eb8c (patch)
treec420683235aab835020701a456a62cd786a02c68 /fs/file_table.c
parent152b6372c90630ef6787334e84cdddbcf8beb241 (diff)
downloadlinux-183266f26f45a47958afb5c9aa1b3d4651e2eb8c.tar.xz
new helper: alloc_file_clone()
alloc_file_clone(old_file, mode, ops): create a new struct file with ->f_path equal to that of old_file. pipe converted. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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-rw-r--r--fs/file_table.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 6b3723909342..78b067ddb386 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -211,6 +211,17 @@ struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *inode, struct vfsmount *mnt,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_file_pseudo);
+struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *base, int flags,
+ const struct file_operations *fops)
+{
+ struct file *f = alloc_file(&base->f_path, flags, fops);
+ if (!IS_ERR(f)) {
+ path_get(&f->f_path);
+ f->f_mapping = base->f_mapping;
+ }
+ return f;
+}
+
/* the real guts of fput() - releasing the last reference to file
*/
static void __fput(struct file *file)