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 5/8] non-consuming variant of do_mknodat()
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 07:41:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108074201.435280-6-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108074201.435280-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_mknodat()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 6 +++---
fs/init.c | 3 ++-
fs/internal.h | 2 +-
fs/namei.c | 11 ++++++-----
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index ace0607fe39c..7e68a148dd1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1339,6 +1339,6 @@ in-tree filesystems have done).
**mandatory**
-do_{mkdir,link,symlink,renameat2}() are gone; filename_...() counterparts
-replace those. The difference is that the former used to consume
-filename references; the latter do not.
+do_{mkdir,mknod,link,symlink,renameat2}() are gone; filename_...()
+counterparts replace 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 9a550ba4802f..543444c1d79e 100644
--- a/fs/init.c
+++ b/fs/init.c
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ int __init init_stat(const char *filename, struct kstat *stat, int flags)
int __init init_mknod(const char *filename, umode_t mode, unsigned int dev)
{
- return do_mknodat(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(filename), mode, dev);
+ CLASS(filename_kernel, name)(filename);
+ return filename_mknodat(AT_FDCWD, name, mode, dev);
}
int __init init_link(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 03638008d84a..02b5dec13ff3 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ int may_linkat(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, const struct path *link);
int filename_renameat2(int olddfd, struct filename *oldname, int newdfd,
struct filename *newname, unsigned int flags);
int filename_mkdirat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode);
-int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode, unsigned int dev);
+int filename_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode, unsigned int dev);
int filename_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to);
int filename_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *old, int newdfd,
struct filename *new, int flags);
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index e3252d4abce4..1aa19dde50e4 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -5038,10 +5038,9 @@ static int may_mknod(umode_t mode)
}
}
-int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *__name, umode_t mode,
- unsigned int dev)
+int filename_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode,
+ unsigned int dev)
{
- CLASS(filename_consume, name)(__name);
struct delegated_inode di = { };
struct mnt_idmap *idmap;
struct dentry *dentry;
@@ -5095,12 +5094,14 @@ int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *__name, umode_t mode,
SYSCALL_DEFINE4(mknodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode,
unsigned int, dev)
{
- return do_mknodat(dfd, getname(filename), mode, dev);
+ CLASS(filename, name)(filename);
+ return filename_mknodat(dfd, name, mode, dev);
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mknod, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode, unsigned, dev)
{
- return do_mknodat(AT_FDCWD, getname(filename), mode, dev);
+ CLASS(filename, name)(filename);
+ return filename_mknodat(AT_FDCWD, name, mode, dev);
}
/**
--
2.47.3
next prev 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 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] non-consuming variant of do_linkat() Al Viro
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 ` Al Viro [this message]
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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