vfs: introduce clone_private_mount()

Overlayfs needs a private clone of the mount, so create a function for
this and export to modules.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index fbba8b17330d..5b66b2b3624d 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1686,6 +1686,33 @@ void drop_collected_mounts(struct vfsmount *mnt)
         namespace_unlock();
 }
 
+/**
+ * clone_private_mount - create a private clone of a path
+ *
+ * This creates a new vfsmount, which will be the clone of @path.  The new will
+ * not be attached anywhere in the namespace and will be private (i.e. changes
+ * to the originating mount won't be propagated into this).
+ *
+ * Release with mntput().
+ */
+struct vfsmount *clone_private_mount(struct path *path)
+{
+        struct mount *old_mnt = real_mount(path->mnt);
+        struct mount *new_mnt;
+
+        if (IS_MNT_UNBINDABLE(old_mnt))
+                return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+        down_read(&namespace_sem);
+        new_mnt = clone_mnt(old_mnt, path->dentry, CL_PRIVATE);
+        up_read(&namespace_sem);
+        if (IS_ERR(new_mnt))
+                return ERR_CAST(new_mnt);
+
+        return &new_mnt->mnt;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clone_private_mount);
+
 int iterate_mounts(int (*f)(struct vfsmount *, void *), void *arg,
                    struct vfsmount *root)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h
index 9262e4bf0cc3..c2c561dc0114 100644
--- a/include/linux/mount.h
+++ b/include/linux/mount.h
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ extern struct vfsmount *mntget(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 extern struct vfsmount *mnt_clone_internal(struct path *path);
 extern int __mnt_is_readonly(struct vfsmount *mnt);
 
+struct path;
+extern struct vfsmount *clone_private_mount(struct path *path);
+
 struct file_system_type;
 extern struct vfsmount *vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type,
                                       int flags, const char *name,