diff --git a/fs/dcookies.c b/fs/dcookies.c
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+/*
+ * dcookies.c
+ *
+ * Copyright 2002 John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
+ *
+ * Persistent cookie-path mappings. These are used by
+ * profilers to convert a per-task EIP value into something
+ * non-transitory that can be processed at a later date.
+ * This is done by locking the dentry/vfsmnt pair in the
+ * kernel until released by the tasks needing the persistent
+ * objects. The tag is simply an unsigned long that refers
+ * to the pair and can be looked up from userspace.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/config.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/dcache.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/dcookies.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+
+/* The dcookies are allocated from a kmem_cache and
+ * hashed onto a small number of lists. None of the
+ * code here is particularly performance critical
+ */
+struct dcookie_struct {
+	struct dentry * dentry;
+	struct vfsmount * vfsmnt;
+	struct list_head hash_list;
+};
+
+static LIST_HEAD(dcookie_users);
+static DECLARE_MUTEX(dcookie_sem);
+static kmem_cache_t * dcookie_cache;
+static struct list_head * dcookie_hashtable;
+static size_t hash_size;
+
+static inline int is_live(void)
+{
+	return !(list_empty(&dcookie_users));
+}
+
+
+/* The dentry is locked, its address will do for the cookie */
+static inline unsigned long dcookie_value(struct dcookie_struct * dcs)
+{
+	return (unsigned long)dcs->dentry;
+}
+
+
+static size_t dcookie_hash(unsigned long dcookie)
+{
+	return (dcookie >> L1_CACHE_SHIFT) & (hash_size - 1);
+}
+
+
+static struct dcookie_struct * find_dcookie(unsigned long dcookie)
+{
+	struct dcookie_struct *found = NULL;
+	struct dcookie_struct * dcs;
+	struct list_head * pos;
+	struct list_head * list;
+
+	list = dcookie_hashtable + dcookie_hash(dcookie);
+
+	list_for_each(pos, list) {
+		dcs = list_entry(pos, struct dcookie_struct, hash_list);
+		if (dcookie_value(dcs) == dcookie) {
+			found = dcs;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return found;
+}
+
+
+static void hash_dcookie(struct dcookie_struct * dcs)
+{
+	struct list_head * list = dcookie_hashtable + dcookie_hash(dcookie_value(dcs));
+	list_add(&dcs->hash_list, list);
+}
+
+
+static struct dcookie_struct * alloc_dcookie(struct dentry * dentry,
+	struct vfsmount * vfsmnt)
+{
+	struct dcookie_struct * dcs = kmem_cache_alloc(dcookie_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!dcs)
+		return NULL;
+
+	atomic_inc(&dentry->d_count);
+	atomic_inc(&vfsmnt->mnt_count);
+	dentry->d_cookie = dcs;
+
+	dcs->dentry = dentry;
+	dcs->vfsmnt = vfsmnt;
+	hash_dcookie(dcs);
+
+	return dcs;
+}
+
+
+/* This is the main kernel-side routine that retrieves the cookie
+ * value for a dentry/vfsmnt pair.
+ */
+int get_dcookie(struct dentry * dentry, struct vfsmount * vfsmnt,
+	unsigned long * cookie)
+{
+	int err = 0;
+	struct dcookie_struct * dcs;
+
+	down(&dcookie_sem);
+
+	if (!is_live()) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	dcs = dentry->d_cookie;
+
+	if (!dcs)
+		dcs = alloc_dcookie(dentry, vfsmnt);
+
+	if (!dcs) {
+		err = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	*cookie = dcookie_value(dcs);
+
+out:
+	up(&dcookie_sem);
+	return err;
+}
+
+
+/* And here is where the userspace process can look up the cookie value
+ * to retrieve the path.
+ */
+asmlinkage long sys_lookup_dcookie(u64 cookie64, char __user * buf, size_t len)
+{
+	unsigned long cookie = (unsigned long)cookie64;
+	int err = -EINVAL;
+	char * kbuf;
+	char * path;
+	size_t pathlen;
+	struct dcookie_struct * dcs;
+
+	/* we could leak path information to users
+	 * without dir read permission without this
+	 */
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return -EPERM;
+
+	down(&dcookie_sem);
+
+	if (!is_live()) {
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (!(dcs = find_dcookie(cookie)))
+		goto out;
+
+	err = -ENOMEM;
+	kbuf = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!kbuf)
+		goto out;
+
+	/* FIXME: (deleted) ? */
+	path = d_path(dcs->dentry, dcs->vfsmnt, kbuf, PAGE_SIZE);
+
+	if (IS_ERR(path)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(path);
+		goto out_free;
+	}
+
+	err = -ERANGE;
+ 
+	pathlen = kbuf + PAGE_SIZE - path;
+	if (pathlen <= len) {
+		err = pathlen;
+		if (copy_to_user(buf, path, pathlen))
+			err = -EFAULT;
+	}
+
+out_free:
+	kfree(kbuf);
+out:
+	up(&dcookie_sem);
+	return err;
+}
+
+
+static int dcookie_init(void)
+{
+	struct list_head * d;
+	unsigned int i, hash_bits;
+	int err = -ENOMEM;
+
+	dcookie_cache = kmem_cache_create("dcookie_cache",
+		sizeof(struct dcookie_struct),
+		0, 0, NULL, NULL);
+
+	if (!dcookie_cache)
+		goto out;
+
+	dcookie_hashtable = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!dcookie_hashtable)
+		goto out_kmem;
+
+	err = 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Find the power-of-two list-heads that can fit into the allocation..
+	 * We don't guarantee that "sizeof(struct list_head)" is necessarily
+	 * a power-of-two.
+	 */
+	hash_size = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct list_head);
+	hash_bits = 0;
+	do {
+		hash_bits++;
+	} while ((hash_size >> hash_bits) != 0);
+	hash_bits--;
+
+	/*
+	 * Re-calculate the actual number of entries and the mask
+	 * from the number of bits we can fit.
+	 */
+	hash_size = 1UL << hash_bits;
+
+	/* And initialize the newly allocated array */
+	d = dcookie_hashtable;
+	i = hash_size;
+	do {
+		INIT_LIST_HEAD(d);
+		d++;
+		i--;
+	} while (i);
+
+out:
+	return err;
+out_kmem:
+	kmem_cache_destroy(dcookie_cache);
+	goto out;
+}
+
+
+static void free_dcookie(struct dcookie_struct * dcs)
+{
+	dcs->dentry->d_cookie = NULL;
+	dput(dcs->dentry);
+	mntput(dcs->vfsmnt);
+	kmem_cache_free(dcookie_cache, dcs);
+}
+
+
+static void dcookie_exit(void)
+{
+	struct list_head * list;
+	struct list_head * pos;
+	struct list_head * pos2;
+	struct dcookie_struct * dcs;
+	size_t i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < hash_size; ++i) {
+		list = dcookie_hashtable + i;
+		list_for_each_safe(pos, pos2, list) {
+			dcs = list_entry(pos, struct dcookie_struct, hash_list);
+			list_del(&dcs->hash_list);
+			free_dcookie(dcs);
+		}
+	}
+
+	kfree(dcookie_hashtable);
+	kmem_cache_destroy(dcookie_cache);
+}
+
+
+struct dcookie_user {
+	struct list_head next;
+};
+ 
+struct dcookie_user * dcookie_register(void)
+{
+	struct dcookie_user * user;
+
+	down(&dcookie_sem);
+
+	user = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dcookie_user), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!user)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (!is_live() && dcookie_init())
+		goto out_free;
+
+	list_add(&user->next, &dcookie_users);
+
+out:
+	up(&dcookie_sem);
+	return user;
+out_free:
+	kfree(user);
+	user = NULL;
+	goto out;
+}
+
+
+void dcookie_unregister(struct dcookie_user * user)
+{
+	down(&dcookie_sem);
+
+	list_del(&user->next);
+	kfree(user);
+
+	if (!is_live())
+		dcookie_exit();
+
+	up(&dcookie_sem);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dcookie_register);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dcookie_unregister);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_dcookie);