[PATCH] new helper - kern_path()
Analog of lookup_path(), takes struct path *.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 68f8c32..221e8bc 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@
#define user_path_dir(name, path) \
user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, path)
+extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *);
+
extern int path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *);
extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);