linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 07/12] vfs: add a "reval" flag to args for user_path

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Message-Id: <1335455843-16089-6-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:57:18 -0400
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, miklos@...redi.hu, hch@...radead.org,
	michael.brantley@...haw.com
Subject: [PATCH v1 07/12] vfs: add a "reval" flag to args for user_path_parent

All of the current callers set this to "false" for now, but we'll fix
them later to set it to true when they retry on an ESTALE error.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
---
 fs/namei.c |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index e9da40b..b1b116b 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1908,15 +1908,19 @@ int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags,
 }
 
 static int user_path_parent(int dfd, const char __user *path,
-			struct nameidata *nd, char **name)
+			struct nameidata *nd, char **name, bool reval)
 {
 	char *s = getname(path);
 	int error;
+	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_PARENT;
 
 	if (IS_ERR(s))
 		return PTR_ERR(s);
 
-	error = do_path_lookup(dfd, s, LOOKUP_PARENT, nd);
+	if (reval)
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+
+	error = do_path_lookup(dfd, s, lookup_flags, nd);
 	if (error)
 		putname(s);
 	else
@@ -2759,7 +2763,7 @@ static long do_rmdir(int dfd, const char __user *pathname)
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct nameidata nd;
 
-	error = user_path_parent(dfd, pathname, &nd, &name);
+	error = user_path_parent(dfd, pathname, &nd, &name, false);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
@@ -2856,7 +2860,7 @@ static long do_unlinkat(int dfd, const char __user *pathname)
 	struct nameidata nd;
 	struct inode *inode = NULL;
 
-	error = user_path_parent(dfd, pathname, &nd, &name);
+	error = user_path_parent(dfd, pathname, &nd, &name, false);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
@@ -3255,11 +3259,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(renameat, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname,
 	char *to;
 	int error;
 
-	error = user_path_parent(olddfd, oldname, &oldnd, &from);
+	error = user_path_parent(olddfd, oldname, &oldnd, &from, false);
 	if (error)
 		goto exit;
 
-	error = user_path_parent(newdfd, newname, &newnd, &to);
+	error = user_path_parent(newdfd, newname, &newnd, &to, false);
 	if (error)
 		goto exit1;
 
-- 
1.7.7.6

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