On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM Vulturus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear kernelnewbies subscribers, > > I was reading the kernel source tree in an > attempt to understand how the chroot syscall workes. > (I was using the linux-6.17-rc3 tarball from kernel.org.) > > At line 1429 of the fs/open.c file, inside the > definition of the do_sys_openat2() function getname() is called. > > I am having trouble finding its definition. > > In particular, > $ grep -rn 'getname' fs > doesn't return a line like 'struct file *getname (args)' > or similar, as I would expect. > > Can someone point me to the file/line where getname() is defined? > > Thank you, > Vulturus > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies Looks like it's an inline function defined in a header in /include/linux/fs.h: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.17-rc3/source/include/linux/fs.h#L2916 Bootlin is a fantastic tool to find where things are defined in the kernel. -Daniel > >
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