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[46.135.84.1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-49e6420de77sm109534235e9.3.2026.09.13.07.49.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:49:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Mateusz Guzik To: brauner@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mateusz Guzik Subject: [PATCH 02/10] fs: add path_create(), path_move() and path_clone() Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:49:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20260913144918.1606123-3-mjguzik@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20260913144918.1606123-1-mjguzik@gmail.com> References: <20260913144918.1606123-1-mjguzik@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik --- fs/namei.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/path.h | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index ca4f5e3be99a..c8754c7ba8be 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -698,6 +698,35 @@ static __always_inline int lookup_inode_permission_may_exec(struct mnt_idmap *id return security_inode_permission(inode, mask); } +/** + * path_create - WRITEME + * @path: path to get the reference to + * @mnt: WRITEME + * @dentry: WRITEME + * + * Create a path object using the given vfsmount and dentry pair while incrementing + * the reference count on both. + */ +void path_create(struct path *path, struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry) +{ + path->mnt = mntget(mnt); + path->dentry = dget(dentry); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_create); + +/** + * path_clone - WRITEME + * @path: path to get the reference to + * + * Given a path increment the reference count to the dentry and the vfsmount. + */ +void path_clone(const struct path *src, struct path *dst) +{ + dst->mnt = mntget(src->mnt); + dst->dentry = dget(src->dentry); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_clone); + /** * path_get - get a reference to a path * @path: path to get the reference to diff --git a/include/linux/path.h b/include/linux/path.h index 7ea389dc764b..8a621e0e1921 100644 --- a/include/linux/path.h +++ b/include/linux/path.h @@ -10,8 +10,18 @@ struct path { struct dentry *dentry; } __randomize_layout; -extern void path_get(const struct path *); -extern void path_put(const struct path *); +void path_create(struct path *, struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *); +void path_clone(const struct path *, struct path *); +void path_get(const struct path *); +void path_put(const struct path *); + +static inline void path_move(struct path *src, struct path *dst) +{ + dst->mnt = src->mnt; + dst->dentry = src->dentry; + src->mnt = NULL; + src->dentry = NULL; +} static inline int path_equal(const struct path *path1, const struct path *path2) { -- 2.53.0