New helper: path_is_under(path1, path2)

Analog of is_subdir for vfsmount,dentry pairs, moved from audit_tree.c

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

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 4365998b8df4..74da947b160b 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -2191,6 +2191,30 @@ int is_subdir(struct dentry *new_dentry, struct dentry *old_dentry)
         return result;
 }
 
+int path_is_under(struct path *path1, struct path *path2)
+{
+        struct vfsmount *mnt = path1->mnt;
+        struct dentry *dentry = path1->dentry;
+        int res;
+        spin_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
+        if (mnt != path2->mnt) {
+                for (;;) {
+                        if (mnt->mnt_parent == mnt) {
+                                spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
+                                return 0;
+                        }
+                        if (mnt->mnt_parent == path2->mnt)
+                                break;
+                        mnt = mnt->mnt_parent;
+                }
+                dentry = mnt->mnt_mountpoint;
+        }
+        res = is_subdir(dentry, path2->dentry);
+        spin_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
+        return res;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_is_under);
+
 void d_genocide(struct dentry *root)
 {
         struct dentry *this_parent = root;