init: add an init_symlink helper

Add a simple helper to symlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it.  Remove the now unused ksys_symlink.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/init.c b/fs/init.c
index 5db9d9f74868..09ef2b58d48c 100644
--- a/fs/init.c
+++ b/fs/init.c
@@ -155,6 +155,22 @@ out:
 	return error;
 }
 
+int __init init_symlink(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+	struct path path;
+	int error;
+
+	dentry = kern_path_create(AT_FDCWD, newname, &path, 0);
+	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+		return PTR_ERR(dentry);
+	error = security_path_symlink(&path, dentry, oldname);
+	if (!error)
+		error = vfs_symlink(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, oldname);
+	done_path_create(&path, dentry);
+	return error;
+}
+
 int __init init_unlink(const char *pathname)
 {
 	return do_unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(pathname));
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 58451b033d26..40b50a222d7a 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@ long do_mknodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode,
 long do_mkdirat(int dfd, const char __user *pathname, umode_t mode);
 long do_rmdir(int dfd, struct filename *name);
 long do_unlinkat(int dfd, struct filename *name);
-long do_symlinkat(const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
-		  const char __user *newname);
 int may_linkat(struct path *link);
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 13de64c6be76..2f6fa53eb3da 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3955,7 +3955,7 @@ int vfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *oldname)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_symlink);
 
-long do_symlinkat(const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
+static long do_symlinkat(const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
 		  const char __user *newname)
 {
 	int error;