Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org designates 209.132.180.67 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.132.180.67;
Date:   Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:11:29 +0100
From:   Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 30/36] fs: add do_linkat() helper and ksys_link()
 wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall
Message-ID: <20180317171129.GD3351@light.dominikbrodowski.net>
References: <20180315190529.20943-1-linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
 <20180315190529.20943-31-linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
 <CAK8P3a0zyzZkH43oW5mMEX5QDm1RdRWMgtjPprFK9iRrNpy5qQ@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a0zyzZkH43oW5mMEX5QDm1RdRWMgtjPprFK9iRrNpy5qQ@mail.gmail.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:30:58PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Dominik Brodowski
> <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:
> >
> >   */
> > -SYSCALL_DEFINE5(linkat, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname,
> > -               int, newdfd, const char __user *, newname, int, flags)
> > +int do_linkat(int olddfd, const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
> > +             const char __user *newname, int flags)
> >  {
> >         struct dentry *new_dentry;
> >         struct path old_path, new_path;
> 
> For consistency with other do_*() functions, I think it would be nice
> to make this one not take a __user pointer either. However, I
> have no idea how to do that without making the common case worse.
> 
> > --- a/init/initramfs.c
> > +++ b/init/initramfs.c
> > @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ static int __init maybe_link(void)
> >         if (nlink >= 2) {
> >                 char *old = find_link(major, minor, ino, mode, collected);
> >                 if (old)
> > -                       return (sys_link(old, collected) < 0) ? -1 : 1;
> > +                       return (ksys_link(old, collected) < 0) ? -1 : 1;
> >         }
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> 
> Since this is the only caller outside of fs/namei.c, maybe it can be
> changed to use vfs_link() instead? That might still be a larger rework
> than you want to do.

In line with what I propose generally for this series, I have added the
following paragraph to the commit message:

	In the near future, the only fs-external user of ksys_link() should be
	converted to use vfs_link() instead.

Thanks,
	Dominik