new helper: open_with_fake_path()

open a file by given inode, faking ->f_path.  Use with shitloads
of caution - at the very least you'd damn better make sure that
some dentry alias of that inode is pinned down by the path in
question.  Again, this is no general-purpose interface and I hope
it will eventually go away.  Right now overlayfs wants something
like that, but nothing else should.

Any out-of-tree code with bright idea of using this one *will*
eventually get hurt, with zero notice and great delight on my part.
I refuse to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), especially in situations when
it's really EXPORT_SYMBOL_DONT_USE_IT(), but don't take that export
as "you are welcome to use it".

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2018-07-12 11:18:42 -04:00
parent 69527c554f
commit 2abc77af89
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@@ -2424,6 +2424,8 @@ 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 * open_with_fake_path(const struct path *, int,
struct inode*, const struct cred *);
static inline struct file *file_clone_open(struct file *file)
{
return dentry_open(&file->f_path, file->f_flags, file->f_cred);