new helpers: vfs_create_mount(), fc_mount()

Create a new helper, vfs_create_mount(), that creates a detached vfsmount
object from an fs_context that has a superblock attached to it.

Almost all uses will be paired with immediately preceding vfs_get_tree();
add a helper for such combination.

Switch vfs_kern_mount() to use this.

NOTE: mild behaviour change; passing NULL as 'device name' to
something like procfs will change /proc/*/mountstats - "device none"
instead on "no device".  That is consistent with /proc/mounts et.al.

[do'h - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL slipped in by mistake; removed]
[AV -- remove confused comment from vfs_create_mount()]
[AV -- removed the second argument]

Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h
index 037eed52164b..9197ddbf35fb 100644
--- a/include/linux/mount.h
+++ b/include/linux/mount.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct super_block;
 struct vfsmount;
 struct dentry;
 struct mnt_namespace;
+struct fs_context;
 
 #define MNT_NOSUID	0x01
 #define MNT_NODEV	0x02
@@ -88,6 +89,8 @@ struct path;
 extern struct vfsmount *clone_private_mount(const struct path *path);
 
 struct file_system_type;
+extern struct vfsmount *fc_mount(struct fs_context *fc);
+extern struct vfsmount *vfs_create_mount(struct fs_context *fc);
 extern struct vfsmount *vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type,
 				      int flags, const char *name,
 				      void *data);