open-style analog of vfs_path_lookup()

new function: file_open_root(dentry, mnt, name, flags) opens the file
vfs_path_lookup would arrive to.

Note that name can be empty; in that case the usual requirement that
dentry should be a directory is lifted.

open-coded equivalents switched to it, may_open() got down exactly
one caller and became static.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 9c75714f92c1..bf5c3c896072 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1990,6 +1990,8 @@ extern int do_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
 extern long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
                         int mode);
 extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, int);
+extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
+                                   const char *, int);
 extern struct file * dentry_open(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, int,
                                  const struct cred *);
 extern int filp_close(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
@@ -2205,8 +2207,6 @@ extern struct file *create_read_pipe(struct file *f, int flags);
 extern struct file *create_write_pipe(int flags);
 extern void free_write_pipe(struct file *);
 
-extern int may_open(struct path *, int, int);
-
 extern int kernel_read(struct file *, loff_t, char *, unsigned long);
 extern struct file * open_exec(const char *);