VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names

Rename old vfs_ioctl to do_ioctl, because the comment above it clearly
indicates that it is an internal function not to be exported to modules;
therefore it should have a more traditional do_XXX name.  The new do_ioctl
is exported in fs.h but not to modules.

Rename the old do_ioctl to vfs_ioctl because the names vfs_XXX should
preferably be reserved to callable VFS functions which modules may call, as
many other vfs_XXX functions already do.  Export the new vfs_ioctl to GPL
modules so others can use it (including Unionfs and eCryptfs).  Add DocBook
for new vfs_ioctl.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index 652cacf433ff..e6500cd12258 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -16,8 +16,20 @@
 
 #include <asm/ioctls.h>
 
-static long do_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
-                unsigned long arg)
+/**
+ * vfs_ioctl - call filesystem specific ioctl methods
+ * @filp: [in]     open file to invoke ioctl method on
+ * @cmd:  [in]     ioctl command to execute
+ * @arg:  [in/out] command-specific argument for ioctl
+ *
+ * Invokes filesystem specific ->unlocked_ioctl, if one exists; otherwise
+ * invokes * filesystem specific ->ioctl method.  If neither method exists,
+ * returns -ENOTTY.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, -errno on error.
+ */
+long vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
+               unsigned long arg)
 {
         int error = -ENOTTY;
 
@@ -72,18 +84,18 @@ static int file_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
                 return put_user(i_size_read(inode) - filp->f_pos, p);
         }
 
-        return do_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
+        return vfs_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
 }
 
 /*
  * When you add any new common ioctls to the switches above and below
  * please update compat_sys_ioctl() too.
  *
- * vfs_ioctl() is not for drivers and not intended to be EXPORT_SYMBOL()'d.
+ * do_vfs_ioctl() is not for drivers and not intended to be EXPORT_SYMBOL()'d.
  * It's just a simple helper for sys_ioctl and compat_sys_ioctl.
  */
-int vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
-              unsigned long arg)
+int do_vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
+             unsigned long arg)
 {
         unsigned int flag;
         int on, error = 0;
@@ -152,7 +164,7 @@ int vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd,
                 if (S_ISREG(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
                         error = file_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
                 else
-                        error = do_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
+                        error = vfs_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg);
                 break;
         }
         return error;
@@ -172,7 +184,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
         if (error)
                 goto out_fput;
 
-        error = vfs_ioctl(filp, fd, cmd, arg);
+        error = do_vfs_ioctl(filp, fd, cmd, arg);
  out_fput:
         fput_light(filp, fput_needed);
  out: