From e896474fe4851ffc4dd860c92daa906783090346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 23:08:34 -0400 Subject: getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in Semantics used by statx(2) (and later *xattrat(2)): without AT_EMPTY_PATH it's standard getname() (i.e. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) on empty string, ERR_PTR(-EFAULT) on NULL), with AT_EMPTY_PATH both empty string and NULL are accepted. Calling conventions: getname_maybe_null(user_pointer, flags) returns * pointer to struct filename when non-empty string had been successfully read * ERR_PTR(...) on error * NULL if an empty string or NULL pointer had been given with AT_EMPTY_PATH in the flags argument. It tries to avoid allocation in the last case; it's not always able to do so, in which case the temporary struct filename instance is freed and NULL returned anyway. Fast path is inlined. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index e3c603d01337..403258ac2ea2 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2766,6 +2766,16 @@ extern struct filename *getname_flags(const char __user *, int); extern struct filename *getname_uflags(const char __user *, int); extern struct filename *getname(const char __user *); extern struct filename *getname_kernel(const char *); +extern struct filename *__getname_maybe_null(const char __user *); +static inline struct filename *getname_maybe_null(const char __user *name, int flags) +{ + if (!(flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH)) + return getname(name); + + if (!name) + return NULL; + return __getname_maybe_null(name); +} extern void putname(struct filename *name); extern int finish_open(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, -- cgit v1.2.3