vfs, seqfile: make mangle_path() global Impact: expose new VFS API make mangle_path() available, as per the suggestions of Christoph Hellwig and Al Viro: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/338 Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c index eba2eab..f5b61cc 100644 --- a/fs/seq_file.c +++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -357,7 +357,18 @@ } EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_printf); -static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc) +/** + * mangle_path - mangle and copy path to buffer beginning + * @s - buffer start + * @p - beginning of path in above buffer + * @esc - set of characters that need escaping + * + * Copy the path from @p to @s, replacing each occurrence of character from + * @esc with usual octal escape. + * Returns pointer past last written character in @s, or NULL in case of + * failure. + */ +char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc) { while (s <= p) { char c = *p++; @@ -376,6 +387,7 @@ } return NULL; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mangle_path); /* * return the absolute path of 'dentry' residing in mount 'mnt'.
diff --git a/include/linux/seq_file.h b/include/linux/seq_file.h index dc50bcc..b3dfa72 100644 --- a/include/linux/seq_file.h +++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ #define SEQ_SKIP 1 +char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc); int seq_open(struct file *, const struct seq_operations *); ssize_t seq_read(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); loff_t seq_lseek(struct file *, loff_t, int);