new helper: open_with_fake_path()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:18:42 +0000 (11:18 -0400)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:18:42 +0000 (11:18 -0400)
commit2abc77af89e17582db9039293c8ac881c8c96d79
tree6bb6425b7b7efbb5976dad7dfd4528b75da50979
parent69527c554f82d4bca4b154ccc06ad1554806bdc0
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>
fs/open.c
include/linux/fs.h