linux-hardened/include
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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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-10-08 07:14:06 +09:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-10-09 16:23:15 +09:00
clocksource arm64: Generic timers support 2012-09-17 13:42:20 +01:00
crypto
drm Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-next 2012-10-07 21:13:54 +10:00
keys
linux vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it 2012-10-12 20:14:55 -04:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'exynos-drm-next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/kmpark/linux-samsung into drm-next 2012-10-07 21:06:33 +10:00
memory
misc
mtd UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/mtd 2012-10-09 09:49:09 +01:00
net ipv4: Add FLOWI_FLAG_KNOWN_NH 2012-10-08 17:42:36 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma infiniband: pass rdma_cm module to netlink_dump_start 2012-10-07 00:30:56 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Prepared for main script 2012-10-03 13:45:43 -07:00
sound Sound updates for 3.7-rc1 2012-10-09 07:07:14 +09:00
target target: Add target_submit_cmd_map_sgls for SGL fabric memory passthrough 2012-10-02 14:16:08 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2012-10-10 10:49:20 +09:00
uapi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-10-10 11:12:54 +09:00
video fbdev updates for 3.7 2012-10-12 10:21:02 +09:00
xen Features: 2012-10-07 07:13:01 +09:00
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