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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 268da2e2bc09..2135ab8bb103 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1853,6 +1853,16 @@ char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt, struct vfsmount *rootmnt; struct dentry *root; + /* + * We have various synthetic filesystems that never get mounted. On + * these filesystems dentries are never used for lookup purposes, and + * thus don't need to be hashed. They also don't need a name until a + * user wants to identify the object in /proc/pid/fd/. The little hack + * below allows us to generate a name for these objects on demand: + */ + if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_dname) + return dentry->d_op->d_dname(dentry, buf, buflen); + read_lock(¤t->fs->lock); rootmnt = mntget(current->fs->rootmnt); root = dget(current->fs->root); @@ -1866,6 +1876,27 @@ char * d_path(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *vfsmnt, } /* + * Helper function for dentry_operations.d_dname() members + */ +char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen, + const char *fmt, ...) +{ + va_list args; + char temp[64]; + int sz; + + va_start(args, fmt); + sz = vsnprintf(temp, sizeof(temp), fmt, args) + 1; + va_end(args); + + if (sz > sizeof(temp) || sz > buflen) + return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG); + + buffer += buflen - sz; + return memcpy(buffer, temp, sz); +} + +/* * NOTE! The user-level library version returns a * character pointer. The kernel system call just * returns the length of the buffer filled (which |
