From: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

Add a tiny procfs helper to splice a dentry that cannot be mounted upon.

Link: 
https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 15a695848bc989c431a0f3ff9bfd03b6126134c5)

https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-121919
Signed-off-by: Vasileios Almpanis <[email protected]>
---
 fs/proc/internal.h | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/proc/internal.h b/fs/proc/internal.h
index 06a80f78433d..dd0408f0278b 100644
--- a/fs/proc/internal.h
+++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
@@ -313,3 +313,16 @@ static inline void pde_force_lookup(struct proc_dir_entry 
*pde)
        /* /proc/net/ entries can be changed under us by setns(CLONE_NEWNET) */
        pde->proc_dops = &proc_net_dentry_ops;
 }
+
+/*
+ * Add a new procfs dentry that can't serve as a mountpoint. That should
+ * encompass anything that is ephemeral and can just disappear while the
+ * process is still around.
+ */
+static inline struct dentry *proc_splice_unmountable(struct inode *inode,
+               struct dentry *dentry, const struct dentry_operations *d_ops)
+{
+       d_set_d_op(dentry, d_ops);
+       dont_mount(dentry);
+       return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
+}
-- 
2.43.0

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