kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path

The new function kernfs_path_from_node() generates and returns kernfs
path of a given kernfs_node relative to a given parent kernfs_node.

Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index af51df35d749..716bfdede5f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -267,8 +267,9 @@ static inline bool kernfs_ns_enabled(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 
 int kernfs_name(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen);
 size_t kernfs_path_len(struct kernfs_node *kn);
-char * __must_check kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf,
-                                size_t buflen);
+int kernfs_path_from_node(struct kernfs_node *root_kn, struct kernfs_node *kn,
+                          char *buf, size_t buflen);
+char *kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen);
 void pr_cont_kernfs_name(struct kernfs_node *kn);
 void pr_cont_kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn);
 struct kernfs_node *kernfs_get_parent(struct kernfs_node *kn);
@@ -338,8 +339,8 @@ static inline int kernfs_name(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 static inline size_t kernfs_path_len(struct kernfs_node *kn)
 { return 0; }
 
-static inline char * __must_check kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf,
-                                              size_t buflen)
+static inline char *kernfs_path(struct kernfs_node *kn, char *buf,
+                                size_t buflen)
 { return NULL; }
 
 static inline void pr_cont_kernfs_name(struct kernfs_node *kn) { }