Kill 9p readlink()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:35:54 +0000 (00:35 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:05:25 +0000 (09:05 -0500)
For symlinks generic_readlink() will work just fine and for directories
we don't want ->readlink() at all.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/9p/vfs_inode.c

index 18f74ec..9d03d1e 100644 (file)
@@ -1001,44 +1001,6 @@ done:
 }
 
 /**
- * v9fs_vfs_readlink - read a symlink's location
- * @dentry: dentry for symlink
- * @buffer: buffer to load symlink location into
- * @buflen: length of buffer
- *
- */
-
-static int v9fs_vfs_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user * buffer,
-                            int buflen)
-{
-       int retval;
-       int ret;
-       char *link = __getname();
-
-       if (unlikely(!link))
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       if (buflen > PATH_MAX)
-               buflen = PATH_MAX;
-
-       P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_VFS, " dentry: %s (%p)\n", dentry->d_name.name,
-                                                                       dentry);
-
-       retval = v9fs_readlink(dentry, link, buflen);
-
-       if (retval > 0) {
-               if ((ret = copy_to_user(buffer, link, retval)) != 0) {
-                       P9_DPRINTK(P9_DEBUG_ERROR,
-                                       "problem copying to user: %d\n", ret);
-                       retval = ret;
-               }
-       }
-
-       __putname(link);
-       return retval;
-}
-
-/**
  * v9fs_vfs_follow_link - follow a symlink path
  * @dentry: dentry for symlink
  * @nd: nameidata
@@ -1230,7 +1192,6 @@ static const struct inode_operations v9fs_dir_inode_operations_ext = {
        .rmdir = v9fs_vfs_rmdir,
        .mknod = v9fs_vfs_mknod,
        .rename = v9fs_vfs_rename,
-       .readlink = v9fs_vfs_readlink,
        .getattr = v9fs_vfs_getattr,
        .setattr = v9fs_vfs_setattr,
 };
@@ -1253,7 +1214,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations v9fs_file_inode_operations = {
 };
 
 static const struct inode_operations v9fs_symlink_inode_operations = {
-       .readlink = v9fs_vfs_readlink,
+       .readlink = generic_readlink,
        .follow_link = v9fs_vfs_follow_link,
        .put_link = v9fs_vfs_put_link,
        .getattr = v9fs_vfs_getattr,