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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@@ -2424,6 +2424,8 @@ extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t);
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extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
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const char *, int, umode_t);
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extern struct file * dentry_open(const struct path *, int, const struct cred *);
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extern struct file * open_with_fake_path(const struct path *, int,
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struct inode*, const struct cred *);
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static inline struct file *file_clone_open(struct file *file)
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{
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return dentry_open(&file->f_path, file->f_flags, file->f_cred);
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