new helper: open_with_fake_path()

open a file by given inode, faking ->f_path.  Use with shitloads
of caution - at the very least you'd damn better make sure that
some dentry alias of that inode is pinned down by the path in
question.  Again, this is no general-purpose interface and I hope
it will eventually go away.  Right now overlayfs wants something
like that, but nothing else should.

Any out-of-tree code with bright idea of using this one *will*
eventually get hurt, with zero notice and great delight on my part.
I refuse to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), especially in situations when
it's really EXPORT_SYMBOL_DONT_USE_IT(), but don't take that export
as "you are welcome to use it".

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 05f34726e29c..4ff7b7012186 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2424,6 +2424,8 @@ extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
 				   const char *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file * dentry_open(const struct path *, int, const struct cred *);
+extern struct file * open_with_fake_path(const struct path *, int,
+					 struct inode*, const struct cred *);
 static inline struct file *file_clone_open(struct file *file)
 {
 	return dentry_open(&file->f_path, file->f_flags, file->f_cred);