To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@...>, Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>, Linux Containers <containers@...>, Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...>, <netdev@...>
When removing a symlink sysfs_remove_link does not provide
enough information to figure out which tagged directory the symlink
falls in. So I need sysfs_delete_link which is passed the target
of the symlink to delete.
Further half the time when we are removing a symlink the code is
actually renaming the symlink but not doing so explicitly because
we don't have a symlink rename method. So I have added sysfs_rename_link
as well.
Both of these functions now have enough information to find a symlink
in a tagged directory. The only restriction is that they must be called
before the target kobject is renamed or deleted. If they are called
later I loose track of which tag the target kobject was marked with
and can no longer find the old symlink to remove it.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
fs/sysfs/symlink.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/sysfs.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index de9a5c0..ed9c52c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -80,6 +80,21 @@ int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char
}
/**
+ * sysfs_delete_link - remove symlink in object's directory.
+ * @kobj: object we're acting for.
+ * @targ: object we're pointing to.
+ * @name: name of the symlink to remove.
+ *
+ * Unlike sysfs_remove_link sysfs_delete_link has enough information
+ * to successfully delete symlinks in tagged directories.
+ */
+void sysfs_delete_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ sysfs_hash_and_remove(targ, kobj->sd, name);
+}
+
+/**
* sysfs_remove_link - remove symlink in object's directory.
* @kobj: object we're acting for.
* @name: name of the symlink to remove.
@@ -97,6 +112,22 @@ void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name)
sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj, parent_sd, name);
}
+/**
+ * sysfs_rename_link - rename symlink in object's directory.
+ * @kobj: object we're acting for.
+ * @targ: object we're pointing to.
+ * @old: previous name of the symlink.
+ * @new: new name of the symlink.
+ *
+ * A helper function for the common rename symlink idiom.
+ */
+int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
+ const char *old, const char *new)
+{
+ sysfs_delete_link(kobj, targ, old);
+ return sysfs_create_link(kobj, targ, new);
+}
+
static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
struct sysfs_dirent *target_sd, char *path)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 8fa97f0..c3a30ce 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ int __must_check sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
const char *name);
void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name);
+int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
+ const char *old_name, const char *new_name);
+
+void sysfs_delete_link(struct kobject *dir, struct kobject *targ,
+ const char *name);
+
int __must_check sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *kobj,
const struct attribute_group *grp);
int sysfs_update_group(struct kobject *kobj,
@@ -198,6 +204,17 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name)
{
}
+static inline int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *k, struct kobject *t,
+ const char *old_name, const char *new_name)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void sysfs_delete_link(struct kobject *k, struct kobject *t,
+ const char *name)
+{
+}
+
static inline int sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *kobj,
const struct attribute_group *grp)
{
--
1.5.3.rc6.17.g1911
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