d_validate9
Verify dentry provided from insecure source (deprecated)
Usage
int d_validate(struct dentry * dentry, struct dentry * dparent);
Arguments
dentry
The dentry alleged to be valid child of dparent
dparent
The parent dentry (known to be valid)
Overview
An insecure source has sent us a dentry, here we verify it and dget it. This is used by ncpfs in its readdir implementation. Zero is returned in the dentry is invalid.
This function is slow for big directories, and deprecated, do not use it.
Releases
5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 4 times.