[PATCH] new helper - kern_path()

Analog of lookup_path(), takes struct path *.

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 68f8c3203c89..221e8bc894ba 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *);
 #define user_path_dir(name, path) \
         user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, path)
 
+extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *);
+
 extern int path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *);
 extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
                            const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);