@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ extern long do_handle_open(int mountdirfd,
struct file_handle __user *ufh, int open_flag);
extern int open_check_o_direct(struct file *f);
extern int vfs_open(const struct path *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
+extern struct file *filp_clone_open(struct file *);
/*
* inode.c
@@ -1004,6 +1004,26 @@ struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root);
+struct file *filp_clone_open(struct file *oldfile)
+{
+ struct file *file;
+ int retval;
+
+ file = get_empty_filp();
+ if (IS_ERR(file))
+ return file;
+
+ file->f_flags = oldfile->f_flags;
+ retval = vfs_open(&oldfile->f_path, file, current_cred());
+ if (retval) {
+ fput(file);
+ return ERR_PTR(retval);
+ }
+
+ return file;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(filp_clone_open);
+
long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
{
struct open_flags op;
I need an API that allows me to obtain a clone of the current file pointer to pass in to an exec handler. I've labelled this as an internal API because I can't see how it would be useful outside of the fs subsystem. The use case will be a persistent binfmt_misc handler. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> --- fs/internal.h | 1 + fs/open.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)