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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-12-11 21:10:06 +0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-12-21 03:50:02 +0400
commit1ac12b4b6d707937f9de6d09622823b2fd0c93ef (patch)
tree7ac3f66abfcce206615abe9effd9e55f26c117a9 /fs/namei.c
parent7955119e02d9fdf78a39fba8073f19ca6152613e (diff)
downloadlinux-1ac12b4b6d707937f9de6d09622823b2fd0c93ef.tar.xz
vfs: turn is_dir argument to kern_path_create into a lookup_flags arg
Where we can pass in LOOKUP_DIRECTORY or LOOKUP_REVAL. Any other flags passed in here are currently ignored. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 25a41e02984b..8f8e41f6eb52 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3030,12 +3030,22 @@ struct file *do_file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
return file;
}
-struct dentry *kern_path_create(int dfd, const char *pathname, struct path *path, int is_dir)
+struct dentry *kern_path_create(int dfd, const char *pathname,
+ struct path *path, unsigned int lookup_flags)
{
struct dentry *dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
struct nameidata nd;
int err2;
- int error = do_path_lookup(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_PARENT, &nd);
+ int error;
+ bool is_dir = (lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY);
+
+ /*
+ * Note that only LOOKUP_REVAL and LOOKUP_DIRECTORY matter here. Any
+ * other flags passed in are ignored!
+ */
+ lookup_flags &= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+
+ error = do_path_lookup(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_PARENT|lookup_flags, &nd);
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);
@@ -3099,13 +3109,14 @@ void done_path_create(struct path *path, struct dentry *dentry)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(done_path_create);
-struct dentry *user_path_create(int dfd, const char __user *pathname, struct path *path, int is_dir)
+struct dentry *user_path_create(int dfd, const char __user *pathname,
+ struct path *path, unsigned int lookup_flags)
{
struct filename *tmp = getname(pathname);
struct dentry *res;
if (IS_ERR(tmp))
return ERR_CAST(tmp);
- res = kern_path_create(dfd, tmp->name, path, is_dir);
+ res = kern_path_create(dfd, tmp->name, path, lookup_flags);
putname(tmp);
return res;
}
@@ -3228,7 +3239,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mkdirat, int, dfd, const char __user *, pathname, umode_t, mode)
struct path path;
int error;
- dentry = user_path_create(dfd, pathname, &path, 1);
+ dentry = user_path_create(dfd, pathname, &path, LOOKUP_DIRECTORY);
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
return PTR_ERR(dentry);