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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
	mjguzik@gmail.com, paul@paul-moore.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
	audit@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/8] non-consuming variant of do_linkat()
Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2026 07:41:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108074201.435280-3-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108074201.435280-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_linkat()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst |  6 +++---
 fs/init.c                             |  5 +++--
 fs/internal.h                         |  2 +-
 fs/namei.c                            | 17 +++++++++--------
 io_uring/fs.c                         |  5 +++--
 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 577f7f952a51..8ecbc41d6d82 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1339,6 +1339,6 @@ in-tree filesystems have done).
 
 **mandatory**
 
-do_renameat2() is gone; filename_renameat2() replaces it.  The difference
-is that the former used to consume filename references; the latter does
-not.
+do_{link,renameat2}() are gone; filename_{link,renameat2}() replaces those.
+The difference is that the former used to consume filename references;
+the latter do not.
diff --git a/fs/init.c b/fs/init.c
index da6500d2ee98..f46e54552931 100644
--- a/fs/init.c
+++ b/fs/init.c
@@ -145,8 +145,9 @@ int __init init_mknod(const char *filename, umode_t mode, unsigned int dev)
 
 int __init init_link(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
 {
-	return do_linkat(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(oldname),
-			 AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(newname), 0);
+	CLASS(filename_kernel, old)(oldname);
+	CLASS(filename_kernel, new)(newname);
+	return filename_linkat(AT_FDCWD, old, AT_FDCWD, new, 0);
 }
 
 int __init init_symlink(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 5047cfbb8c93..c9b70c2716d1 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int filename_renameat2(int olddfd, struct filename *oldname, int newdfd,
 int do_mkdirat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode);
 int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode, unsigned int dev);
 int do_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to);
-int do_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *old, int newdfd,
+int filename_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *old, int newdfd,
 			struct filename *new, int flags);
 int vfs_tmpfile(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 		const struct path *parentpath,
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index c54beaf193e0..1f003ac9470e 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -5685,12 +5685,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_link);
  * We don't follow them on the oldname either to be compatible
  * with linux 2.0, and to avoid hard-linking to directories
  * and other special files.  --ADM
- */
-int do_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *__old, int newdfd,
-	      struct filename *__new, int flags)
+*/
+int filename_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *old,
+		    int newdfd, struct filename *new, int flags)
 {
-	CLASS(filename_consume, old)(__old);
-	CLASS(filename_consume, new)(__new);
 	struct mnt_idmap *idmap;
 	struct dentry *new_dentry;
 	struct path old_path, new_path;
@@ -5756,13 +5754,16 @@ int do_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *__old, int newdfd,
 SYSCALL_DEFINE5(linkat, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname,
 		int, newdfd, const char __user *, newname, int, flags)
 {
-	return do_linkat(olddfd, getname_uflags(oldname, flags),
-		newdfd, getname(newname), flags);
+	CLASS(filename_uflags, old)(oldname, flags);
+	CLASS(filename, new)(newname);
+	return filename_linkat(olddfd, old, newdfd, new, flags);
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(link, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newname)
 {
-	return do_linkat(AT_FDCWD, getname(oldname), AT_FDCWD, getname(newname), 0);
+	CLASS(filename, old)(oldname);
+	CLASS(filename, new)(newname);
+	return filename_linkat(AT_FDCWD, old, AT_FDCWD, new, 0);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/io_uring/fs.c b/io_uring/fs.c
index e5829d112c9e..e39cd1ca1942 100644
--- a/io_uring/fs.c
+++ b/io_uring/fs.c
@@ -280,12 +280,13 @@ int io_linkat_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe)
 int io_linkat(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
 {
 	struct io_link *lnk = io_kiocb_to_cmd(req, struct io_link);
+	CLASS(filename_complete_delayed, old)(&lnk->oldpath);
+	CLASS(filename_complete_delayed, new)(&lnk->newpath);
 	int ret;
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(issue_flags & IO_URING_F_NONBLOCK);
 
-	ret = do_linkat(lnk->old_dfd, complete_getname(&lnk->oldpath),
-			lnk->new_dfd, complete_getname(&lnk->newpath), lnk->flags);
+	ret = filename_linkat(lnk->old_dfd, old, lnk->new_dfd, new, lnk->flags);
 
 	req->flags &= ~REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP;
 	io_req_set_res(req, ret, 0);
-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-01-08  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-01-08  7:41 [RFC PATCH 0/8] experimental struct filename followups Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] non-consuming variant of do_renameat2() Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:41 ` Al Viro [this message]
2026-01-08  7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] non-consuming variant of do_symlinkat() Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] non-consuming variant of do_mkdirat() Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] non-consuming variant of do_mknodat() Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] non-consuming variants of do_{unlinkat,rmdir}() Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:42 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] execve: fold {compat_,}do_execve{,at}() into their sole callers Al Viro
2026-01-08  7:42 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] do_execveat_common(): don't consume filename reference Al Viro
2026-01-12 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] experimental struct filename followups Christian Brauner
2026-01-14  2:15   ` Al Viro
2026-01-14  2:28     ` Al Viro
2026-01-14 16:00     ` Christian Brauner

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