[PATCH] sanitize __user_walk_fd() et.al.
* do not pass nameidata; struct path is all the callers want.
* switch to new helpers:
user_path_at(dfd, pathname, flags, &path)
user_path(pathname, &path)
user_lpath(pathname, &path)
user_path_dir(pathname, &path) (fail if not a directory)
The last 3 are trivial macro wrappers for the first one.
* remove nameidata in callers.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
index 32ca1b9..6e94313 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -253,15 +253,15 @@
}
asmlinkage int
-osf_statfs(char __user *path, struct osf_statfs __user *buffer, unsigned long bufsiz)
+osf_statfs(char __user *pathname, struct osf_statfs __user *buffer, unsigned long bufsiz)
{
- struct nameidata nd;
+ struct path path;
int retval;
- retval = user_path_walk(path, &nd);
+ retval = user_path(pathname, &path);
if (!retval) {
- retval = do_osf_statfs(nd.path.dentry, buffer, bufsiz);
- path_put(&nd.path);
+ retval = do_osf_statfs(path.dentry, buffer, bufsiz);
+ path_put(&path);
}
return retval;
}