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diff --git a/include/linux/exportfs.h b/include/linux/exportfs.h
index 06178a1336ff..b44f6b6871c8 100644
--- a/include/linux/exportfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/exportfs.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
struct dentry;
+struct inode;
struct super_block;
struct vfsmount;
@@ -101,6 +102,21 @@ struct fid {
* the filehandle fragment. encode_fh() should return the number of bytes
* stored or a negative error code such as %-ENOSPC
*
+ * fh_to_dentry:
+ * @fh_to_dentry is given a &struct super_block (@sb) and a file handle
+ * fragment (@fh, @fh_len). It should return a &struct dentry which refers
+ * to the same file that the file handle fragment refers to. If it cannot,
+ * it should return a %NULL pointer if the file was found but no acceptable
+ * &dentries were available, or an %ERR_PTR error code indicating why it
+ * couldn't be found (e.g. %ENOENT or %ENOMEM). Any suitable dentry can be
+ * returned including, if necessary, a new dentry created with d_alloc_root.
+ * The caller can then find any other extant dentries by following the
+ * d_alias links.
+ *
+ * fh_to_parent:
+ * Same as @fh_to_dentry, except that it returns a pointer to the parent
+ * dentry if it was encoded into the filehandle fragment by @encode_fh.
+ *
* get_name:
* @get_name should find a name for the given @child in the given @parent
* directory. The name should be stored in the @name (with the
@@ -139,6 +155,10 @@ struct export_operations {
void *context);
int (*encode_fh)(struct dentry *de, __u32 *fh, int *max_len,
int connectable);
+ struct dentry * (*fh_to_dentry)(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
+ int fh_len, int fh_type);
+ struct dentry * (*fh_to_parent)(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fid,
+ int fh_len, int fh_type);
int (*get_name)(struct dentry *parent, char *name,
struct dentry *child);
struct dentry * (*get_parent)(struct dentry *child);
@@ -161,4 +181,14 @@ extern struct dentry *exportfs_decode_fh(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct fid *fid,
int fh_len, int fileid_type, int (*acceptable)(void *, struct dentry *),
void *context);
+/*
+ * Generic helpers for filesystems.
+ */
+extern struct dentry *generic_fh_to_dentry(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct fid *fid, int fh_len, int fh_type,
+ struct inode *(*get_inode) (struct super_block *sb, u64 ino, u32 gen));
+extern struct dentry *generic_fh_to_parent(struct super_block *sb,
+ struct fid *fid, int fh_len, int fh_type,
+ struct inode *(*get_inode) (struct super_block *sb, u64 ino, u32 gen));
+
#endif /* LINUX_EXPORTFS_H */
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