---

yaml
---
r: 61587
b: refs/heads/master
c: 16f1820
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  61585: 757bfbc
  61583: ddd5466
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b6a2fea39318e43fee84fa7b0b90d68bed92d2ba
+refs/heads/master: 16f1820028d660d9da9c03b2ae7e98253c11795b

trunk/fs/namei.c

@@ -1172,6 +1172,37 @@ int fastcall path_lookup(const char *name, unsigned int flags,
 	return do_path_lookup(AT_FDCWD, name, flags, nd);
 }
 
+/**
+ * vfs_path_lookup - lookup a file path relative to a dentry-vfsmount pair
+ * @dentry:  pointer to dentry of the base directory
+ * @mnt: pointer to vfs mount of the base directory
+ * @name: pointer to file name
+ * @flags: lookup flags
+ * @nd: pointer to nameidata
+ */
+int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
+		    const char *name, unsigned int flags,
+		    struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	int retval;
+
+	/* same as do_path_lookup */
+	nd->last_type = LAST_ROOT;
+	nd->flags = flags;
+	nd->depth = 0;
+
+	nd->mnt = mntget(mnt);
+	nd->dentry = dget(dentry);
+
+	retval = path_walk(name, nd);
+	if (unlikely(!retval && !audit_dummy_context() && nd->dentry &&
+				nd->dentry->d_inode))
+		audit_inode(name, nd->dentry->d_inode);
+
+	return retval;
+
+}
+
 static int __path_lookup_intent_open(int dfd, const char *name,
 		unsigned int lookup_flags, struct nameidata *nd,
 		int open_flags, int create_mode)
@@ -2774,6 +2805,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_symlink);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink_inode_operations);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_lookup);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_path_lookup);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_release);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_walk);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(permission);

trunk/include/linux/namei.h

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ extern int FASTCALL(__user_walk_fd(int dfd, const char __user *, unsigned, struc
 #define user_path_walk_link(name,nd) \
 	__user_walk_fd(AT_FDCWD, name, 0, nd)
 extern int FASTCALL(path_lookup(const char *, unsigned, struct nameidata *));
+extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
+			   const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);
 extern int FASTCALL(path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *));
 extern int FASTCALL(link_path_walk(const char *, struct nameidata *));
 extern void path_release(struct nameidata *);