We will need this helper in the next patch to
provide a file handle for inotify marks in
/proc/pid/fdinfo output.

The patch is rather providing the way to use inodes
directly when dentry is not available (like in case
of inotify system).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@openvz.org>
CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xe...@parallels.com>
CC: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
CC: Andrey Vagin <ava...@openvz.org>
CC: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
CC: James Bottomley <jbottom...@parallels.com>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobri...@gmail.com>
CC: Matthew Helsley <matt.hels...@gmail.com>
CC: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfie...@fieldses.org>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursu...@onelan.co.uk>
---
 fs/exportfs/expfs.c      |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/exportfs.h |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
@@ -341,10 +341,21 @@ static int export_encode_fh(struct inode
        return type;
 }
 
+int exportfs_encode_inode_fh(struct inode *inode, struct fid *fid,
+                            int *max_len, struct inode *parent)
+{
+       const struct export_operations *nop = inode->i_sb->s_export_op;
+
+       if (nop && nop->encode_fh)
+               return nop->encode_fh(inode, fid->raw, max_len, parent);
+
+       return export_encode_fh(inode, fid, max_len, parent);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(exportfs_encode_inode_fh);
+
 int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, struct fid *fid, int *max_len,
                int connectable)
 {
-       const struct export_operations *nop = dentry->d_sb->s_export_op;
        int error;
        struct dentry *p = NULL;
        struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode, *parent = NULL;
@@ -357,10 +368,8 @@ int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *de
                 */
                parent = p->d_inode;
        }
-       if (nop && nop->encode_fh)
-               error = nop->encode_fh(inode, fid->raw, max_len, parent);
-       else
-               error = export_encode_fh(inode, fid, max_len, parent);
+
+       error = exportfs_encode_inode_fh(inode, fid, max_len, parent);
        dput(p);
 
        return error;
Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/exportfs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/exportfs.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/exportfs.h
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ struct export_operations {
        int (*commit_metadata)(struct inode *inode);
 };
 
+extern int exportfs_encode_inode_fh(struct inode *inode, struct fid *fid,
+                                   int *max_len, struct inode *parent);
 extern int exportfs_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, struct fid *fid,
        int *max_len, int connectable);
 extern struct dentry *exportfs_decode_fh(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct fid *fid,

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