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-rw-r--r--fs/seq_file.c24
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index eba2eabcd2b..99d8b8cfc9b 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -357,7 +357,18 @@ int seq_printf(struct seq_file *m, const char *f, ...)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_printf);
-static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc)
+/**
+ * mangle_path - mangle and copy path to buffer beginning
+ * @s: buffer start
+ * @p: beginning of path in above buffer
+ * @esc: set of characters that need escaping
+ *
+ * Copy the path from @p to @s, replacing each occurrence of character from
+ * @esc with usual octal escape.
+ * Returns pointer past last written character in @s, or NULL in case of
+ * failure.
+ */
+char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc)
{
while (s <= p) {
char c = *p++;
@@ -376,9 +387,16 @@ static char *mangle_path(char *s, char *p, char *esc)
}
return NULL;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mangle_path);
-/*
- * return the absolute path of 'dentry' residing in mount 'mnt'.
+/**
+ * seq_path - seq_file interface to print a pathname
+ * @m: the seq_file handle
+ * @path: the struct path to print
+ * @esc: set of characters to escape in the output
+ *
+ * return the absolute path of 'path', as represented by the
+ * dentry / mnt pair in the path parameter.
*/
int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, char *esc)
{