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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-12-09 16:45:04 +0100
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-12-09 16:45:04 +0100
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vfs: default to generic_readlink()
If i_op->readlink is NULL, but i_op->get_link is set then vfs_readlink() defaults to calling generic_readlink(). The IOP_DEFAULT_READLINK flag indicates that the above conditions are met and the default action can be taken. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt9
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index bdd025ceb763..95280079c0b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -596,3 +596,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the
filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned.
+--
+[recommended]
+ ->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs
+ to fake something for readlink(2).
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index b5039a00caaf..038241123ca5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -451,9 +451,6 @@ otherwise noted.
exist; this is checked by the VFS. Unlike plain rename,
source and target may be of different type.
- readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if
- you want to support reading symbolic links
-
get_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the
inode it points to. Only required if you want to support
symbolic links. This method returns the symlink body
@@ -468,6 +465,12 @@ otherwise noted.
argument. If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode,
have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD).
+ readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the
+ cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in
+ fact a symlink. Normally filesystems should only implement
+ ->get_link for symlinks and readlink(2) will automatically use
+ that.
+
permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
filesystem.