From b70a80e7a133a0c86f2fa078e7c144597c516415 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 16:44:54 +0200 Subject: vfs: introduce d_instantiate_no_diralias() ...which just returns -EBUSY if a directory alias would be created. This is to be used by fuse mkdir to make sure that a buggy or malicious userspace filesystem doesn't do anything nasty. Previously fuse used a private mutex for this purpose, which can now go away. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- include/linux/dcache.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/dcache.h') diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index 59066e0b4ff1..716c3760ee39 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ static inline int dname_external(const struct dentry *dentry) extern void d_instantiate(struct dentry *, struct inode *); extern struct dentry * d_instantiate_unique(struct dentry *, struct inode *); extern struct dentry * d_materialise_unique(struct dentry *, struct inode *); +extern int d_instantiate_no_diralias(struct dentry *, struct inode *); extern void __d_drop(struct dentry *dentry); extern void d_drop(struct dentry *dentry); extern void d_delete(struct dentry *); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b