vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()

Add a new inode operation i_op->dentry_open().  This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a957d4366c2..5cf7f675967 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1528,6 +1528,9 @@ struct inode_operations {
 			   umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
 	int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
 	int (*set_acl)(struct inode *, struct posix_acl *, int);
+
+	/* WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use! */
+	int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
 } ____cacheline_aligned;
 
 ssize_t rw_copy_check_uvector(int type, const struct iovec __user * uvector,
@@ -2040,6 +2043,7 @@ extern struct file *file_open_name(struct filename *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
 				   const char *, int);
+extern int vfs_open(const struct path *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
 extern struct file * dentry_open(const struct path *, int, const struct cred *);
 extern int filp_close(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);