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Subject[RFC][PATCH 36/42] new helper: alloc_file_clone()
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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

alloc_file_clone(old_file, mode, ops): create a new struct file with
->f_path equal to that of old_file. pipe converted.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
fs/file_table.c | 11 +++++++++++
fs/pipe.c | 4 +---
include/linux/file.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 23bc46ea5f4b..9097a6fb5a2f 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -209,6 +209,17 @@ struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *inode, struct vfsmount *mnt,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_file_pseudo);

+struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *base, fmode_t mode,
+ const struct file_operations *fops)
+{
+ struct file *f = alloc_file(&base->f_path, mode, fops);
+ if (!IS_ERR(f)) {
+ path_get(&f->f_path);
+ f->f_mapping = base->f_mapping;
+ }
+ return f;
+}
+
/* the real guts of fput() - releasing the last reference to file
*/
static void __fput(struct file *file)
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index c8c4265bf87b..94323a1d7c92 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -760,14 +760,12 @@ int create_pipe_files(struct file **res, int flags)
f->f_flags = O_WRONLY | (flags & (O_NONBLOCK | O_DIRECT));
f->private_data = inode->i_pipe;

- res[0] = alloc_file(&f->f_path, FMODE_READ, &pipefifo_fops);
+ res[0] = alloc_file_clone(f, FMODE_READ, &pipefifo_fops);
if (IS_ERR(res[0])) {
put_pipe_info(inode, inode->i_pipe);
fput(f);
return PTR_ERR(res[0]);
}
-
- path_get(&f->f_path);
res[0]->private_data = inode->i_pipe;
res[0]->f_flags = O_RDONLY | (flags & O_NONBLOCK);
res[1] = f;
diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index 0a4ef2315f75..22becbfd4cec 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ extern struct file *alloc_file(const struct path *, fmode_t mode,
const struct file_operations *fop);
extern struct file *alloc_file_pseudo(struct inode *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, fmode_t, const struct file_operations *);
+extern struct file *alloc_file_clone(struct file *, fmode_t,
+ const struct file_operations *);

static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed)
{
--
2.11.0
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