[PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/5] namei: Introduce new helper function path_walk_parent()

[Song Liu]

This helper walks an input path to its parent. Logic are added to handle
walking across mount tree.

This will be used by landlock, and BPF LSM.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song at kernel.org>
---
 fs/namei.c            | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/namei.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 4bb889fc980b..f02183e9c073 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1424,6 +1424,57 @@ static bool choose_mountpoint(struct mount *m, const struct path *root,
 	return found;
 }
 
+/**
+ * path_walk_parent - Walk to the parent of path
+ * @path: input and output path.
+ * @root: root of the path walk, do not go beyond this root. If @root is
+ *        zero'ed, walk all the way to real root.
+ *
+ * Given a path, find the parent path. Replace @path with the parent path.
+ * If we were already at the real root or a disconnected root, @path is
+ * not changed.
+ *
+ * The logic of path_walk_parent() is similar to follow_dotdot(), except
+ * that path_walk_parent() will continue walking for !path_connected case.
+ * This effectively means we are walking from disconnected bind mount to
+ * the original mount. If this behavior is not desired, the caller can add
+ * a check like:
+ *
+ *   if (path_walk_parent(&path) && !path_connected(path.mnt, path.dentry)
+ *           // continue walking
+ *   else
+ *           // stop walking
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ *  true  - if @path is updated to its parent.
+ *  false - if @path is already the root (real root or @root).
+ */
+bool path_walk_parent(struct path *path, const struct path *root)
+{
+	struct dentry *parent;
+
+	if (path_equal(path, root))
+		return false;
+
+	if (unlikely(path->dentry == path->mnt->mnt_root)) {
+		struct path p;
+
+		if (!choose_mountpoint(real_mount(path->mnt), root, &p))
+			return false;
+		path_put(path);
+		*path = p;
+	}
+
+	if (unlikely(IS_ROOT(path->dentry)))
+		return false;
+
+	parent = dget_parent(path->dentry);
+	dput(path->dentry);
+	path->dentry = parent;
+	return true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(path_walk_parent);
+
 /*
  * Perform an automount
  * - return -EISDIR to tell follow_managed() to stop and return the path we
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 5d085428e471..cba5373ecf86 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ extern int follow_down_one(struct path *);
 extern int follow_down(struct path *path, unsigned int flags);
 extern int follow_up(struct path *);
 
+bool path_walk_parent(struct path *path, const struct path *root);
+
 extern struct dentry *lock_rename(struct dentry *, struct dentry *);
 extern struct dentry *lock_rename_child(struct dentry *, struct dentry *);
 extern void unlock_rename(struct dentry *, struct dentry *);
-- 
2.47.1