linux/arch/cris
Jeff Layton 91a27b2a75 vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a
kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would
however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to
the string.

For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the
amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled,
we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not
need to recopy it from userspace.

This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return
a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the
string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it.

Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes
convenient.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
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arch-v10 vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it 2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
arch-v32 vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it 2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
boot Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
configs kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
include Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-12 10:49:08 +09:00
kernel cris: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop 2012-09-23 07:44:44 -07:00
mm readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection 2012-10-09 16:22:47 +09:00
Kconfig Kconfig: clean up the long arch list for the UID16 config option 2012-10-09 16:22:13 +09:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: remove a few puzzling comments 2011-10-31 10:58:48 +01:00
Makefile UAPI: Partition the header include path sets and add uapi/ header directories 2012-10-02 18:01:26 +01:00