new helpers: kern_path_create/user_path_create

combination of kern_path_parent() and lookup_create().  Does *not*
expose struct nameidata to caller.  Syscalls converted to that...

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 3439ab862e1d..b8cea804d31a 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *);
 
 extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *);
 
+extern struct dentry *kern_path_create(int, const char *, struct path *, int);
+extern struct dentry *user_path_create(int, const char __user *, struct path *, int);
 extern int kern_path_parent(const char *, struct nameidata *);
 extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
                            const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);