proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent

Supply an accessor function for getting the private data from the parent
proc_dir_entry struct of the proc_dir_entry struct associated with an inode.

ReiserFS, for instance, stores the super_block pointer in the proc directory
it makes for that super_block, and a pointer to the respective seq_file show
function in each of the proc files in that directory.

This allows a reduction in the number of file_operations structs, open
functions and seq_operations structs required.  The problem otherwise is that
each show function requires two pieces of data but only has storage for one
per PDE (and this has no release function).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
cc: Jerry Chuang <jerry-chuang@realtek.com>
cc: Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95@gmail.com>
cc: YAMANE Toshiaki <yamanetoshi@gmail.com>
cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 4074da57c99..75e08d36b2f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -617,3 +617,10 @@ int remove_proc_subtree(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_proc_subtree);
+
+void *proc_get_parent_data(const struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct proc_dir_entry *de = PDE(inode);
+	return de->parent->data;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(proc_get_parent_data);