linux/arch/alpha
Jeff Layton 91a27b2a75 vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
getname() is intended to copy pathname strings from userspace into a
kernel buffer. The result is just a string in kernel space. It would
however be quite helpful to be able to attach some ancillary info to
the string.

For instance, we could attach some audit-related info to reduce the
amount of audit-related processing needed. When auditing is enabled,
we could also call getname() on the string more than once and not
need to recopy it from userspace.

This patchset converts the getname()/putname() interfaces to return
a struct instead of a string. For now, the struct just tracks the
string in kernel space and the original userland pointer for it.

Later, we'll add other information to the struct as it becomes
convenient.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
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boot Disintegrate asm/system.h for Alpha 2012-03-28 18:11:12 +01:00
include Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2012-10-12 10:49:08 +09:00
kernel vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it 2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
lib alpha: Use new generic strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() 2012-08-19 08:41:18 -07:00
math-emu alpha: change to new Makefile flag variables 2011-01-17 05:42:13 +01:00
mm alpha/mm/fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
oprofile alpha: Fix fall-out from disintegrating asm/system.h 2012-08-19 08:41:19 -07:00
defconfig
Kconfig alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread() 2012-09-30 22:53:18 -04:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile