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SubjectRe: how do you call userspace syscalls (e.g. sys_rename) from inside kernel
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:07:04AM -0300, Fabiano Ramos wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 14:04 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > could someone kindly advise me on the location of some example code in
> > the kernel which calls one of the userspace system calls from inside the
> > kernel?
> >
> > alternatively if this has never been considered before, please could
> > someone advise me as to how it might be achieved?
> >
>
> you cannot do that. For every sys_xx there is a do_xx, that can
> be called from inside the kernel.

so, there's a do_rename (yes i found that and ISTRC that when
i used it i can't exactly remember what the problem was:
either i got an error code -14 or i got "warning symbol
do_rename not found" when my module was linked together,
even though it says EXPORT_SYMBOL(do_rename) in fs/namei.c,
so i was forced to cut/paste sys_rename)

and there's a do_open no there isn't, there's filp_open.

and a do_pread64 no there isn't i had to cut/paste sys_pread64
which was okay because it's pretty basic, just call vfs_read.

and a do_mkdir no there isn't so i had to cut/paste that.


basically what i am doing is writing a file system "proxy"
module which re-calls back into the filesystem with a prefix
onto the front of the pathname.

> > [p.s. i found asm/unistd.h, i found the macros syscall012345
> > etc., i believe i don't quite understand what these are for, and
> > may be on the wrong track.]
>
> These are are available for you to make syscalls from user mode
> without library support (usually that brand new syscall you added).
> They are basically wrappers that expand into C code. _syscallx,
> where x is the number of arguments the syscall needs.

so, it's for use the other way round. okay, thanks for keeping me off
a broken line of enquiry.

[oh, and i'll be abandoning this line of enquiry _entirely_ if i find
that supermount-ng can do the same job - namely manage to keep
userspace programs happy when users rip out media]

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