On 8/29/25 2:43 PM, Vulturus 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? You can use GNU Global [1] to find definition and references. $ make gtags $ global -x getname getname 2916 include/linux/fs.h static inline struct filename *getname(const char __user *name) $ global -xr getname getname 484 crypto/af_alg.c .getname = sock_no_getname, ... <snip> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/global/ > Thank you, > Vulturus _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
