commit 06c3f2aa upstream.

So that it can be used more widely, like in the next patch, when it will
be used to fix a bug in 'perf test' handling of dirent.d_type ==
DT_UNKNOWN.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206174535.25380-1-jolsa@kernel.org
[ Split from a larger patch, removed needless includes in path.h ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>