* anonymous inode, and a dentry that describe the "class"
* of the file
*
- * @pfd: [out] pointer to the file descriptor
- * @dpinode: [out] pointer to the inode
- * @pfile: [out] pointer to the file struct
* @name: [in] name of the "class" of the new file
* @fops [in] file operations for the new file
* @priv [in] private data for the new file (will be file's private_data)
* that do not need to have a full-fledged inode in order to operate correctly.
* All the files created with anon_inode_getfd() will share a single inode,
* hence saving memory and avoiding code duplication for the file/inode/dentry
- * setup.
+ * setup. Returns new descriptor or -error.
*/
-int anon_inode_getfd(int *pfd, struct inode **pinode, struct file **pfile,
- const char *name, const struct file_operations *fops,
+int anon_inode_getfd(const char *name, const struct file_operations *fops,
void *priv)
{
struct qstr this;
if (IS_ERR(anon_inode_inode))
return -ENODEV;
- file = get_empty_filp();
- if (!file)
- return -ENFILE;
error = get_unused_fd();
if (error < 0)
- goto err_put_filp;
+ return error;
fd = error;
/*
dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED;
d_instantiate(dentry, anon_inode_inode);
- file->f_path.mnt = mntget(anon_inode_mnt);
- file->f_path.dentry = dentry;
+ error = -ENFILE;
+ file = alloc_file(anon_inode_mnt, dentry,
+ FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE, fops);
+ if (!file)
+ goto err_dput;
file->f_mapping = anon_inode_inode->i_mapping;
file->f_pos = 0;
file->f_flags = O_RDWR;
- file->f_op = fops;
- file->f_mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE;
file->f_version = 0;
file->private_data = priv;
fd_install(fd, file);
- *pfd = fd;
- *pinode = anon_inode_inode;
- *pfile = file;
- return 0;
+ return fd;
+err_dput:
+ dput(dentry);
err_put_unused_fd:
put_unused_fd(fd);
-err_put_filp:
- put_filp(file);
return error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(anon_inode_getfd);