From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: hch@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, adilger@sun.com,
corbet@lwn.net, serue@us.ibm.com, neilb@suse.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@us.ibm.com,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH -V6 4/8] vfs: Add freadlink syscall
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:43:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272384830-22670-5-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272384830-22670-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This enables to use open-by-handle and then get the link target
details of a symlink using the fd returned by handle
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
fs/stat.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index c4ecd52..0fbab00 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -314,6 +314,33 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readlink, const char __user *, path, char __user *, buf,
return sys_readlinkat(AT_FDCWD, path, buf, bufsiz);
}
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(freadlink, int, fd, char __user *, buf,
+ int, bufsiz)
+{
+ int fput_needed;
+ struct file *file;
+ int error = -EBADF;
+ struct inode *inode;
+
+ file = fget_light(fd, &fput_needed);
+ if (!file)
+ return error;
+
+ inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ if (inode->i_op->readlink) {
+ error = security_inode_readlink(file->f_path.dentry);
+ if (!error) {
+ touch_atime(file->f_path.mnt, file->f_path.dentry);
+ error = inode->i_op->readlink(file->f_path.dentry,
+ buf, bufsiz);
+ }
+ }
+ fput_light(file, fput_needed);
+ return error;
+}
+
+
/* ---------- LFS-64 ----------- */
#ifdef __ARCH_WANT_STAT64
--
1.7.0.4.360.g11766c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-27 16:13 [PATCH -V6 0/8] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 1/8] exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 2/8] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 3/8] vfs: Add open by file handle support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 5/8] ext4: Add get_fsid callback Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 6/8] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 7/8] x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 16:13 ` [PATCH -V6 8/8] ext3: Add get_fsid callback Aneesh Kumar K.V
2010-04-27 21:13 ` [PATCH -V6 0/8] Generic name to handle and open by handle syscalls Andreas Dilger
2010-04-28 5:09 ` Aneesh Kumar K. V
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