How can I get a filename from a file descriptor inside a kernel module?

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Don’t call SYS_readlink – use the same method that procfs does when one of those links is read. Start with the code in proc_pid_readlink() and proc_fd_link() in fs/proc/base.c.

Broadly, given an int fd and a struct files_struct *files from the task you’re interested in (which you have taken a reference to), you want to do:

char *tmp;
char *pathname;
struct file *file;
struct path *path;

spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
file = fcheck_files(files, fd);
if (!file) {
    spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
    return -ENOENT;
}

path = &file->f_path;
path_get(path);
spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);

tmp = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);

if (!tmp) {
    path_put(path);
    return -ENOMEM;
}

pathname = d_path(path, tmp, PAGE_SIZE);
path_put(path);

if (IS_ERR(pathname)) {
    free_page((unsigned long)tmp);
    return PTR_ERR(pathname);
}

/* do something here with pathname */

free_page((unsigned long)tmp);

If your code is running in process-context (eg. invoked through a syscall) and the file descriptor is from the current process, then you can use current->files for the current task’s struct files_struct *.

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