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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2010-02-13 04:22:25 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-08 02:04:52 +0100
commit7cb32942d91a501b2df944928ccc9e6590ab237b (patch)
tree7c6ff2a82705d7dda8a566702f3bab981d03bf54 /fs/sysfs
parentsysfs: Pack sysfs_dirent more tightly. (diff)
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sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_link
Because of rename ordering problems we occassionally give false warnings about invalid sysfs operations. So using sysfs_rename create a sysfs_rename_link function that doesn't need strange workarounds. Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/symlink.c38
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index c5eff49fa41b..1b9a3a1e8a17 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -123,6 +123,44 @@ void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name)
sysfs_hash_and_remove(parent_sd, name);
}
+/**
+ * sysfs_rename_link - rename symlink in object's directory.
+ * @kobj: object we're acting for.
+ * @targ: object we're pointing to.
+ * @old: previous name of the symlink.
+ * @new: new name of the symlink.
+ *
+ * A helper function for the common rename symlink idiom.
+ */
+int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
+ const char *old, const char *new)
+{
+ struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, *sd = NULL;
+ int result;
+
+ if (!kobj)
+ parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
+ else
+ parent_sd = kobj->sd;
+
+ result = -ENOENT;
+ sd = sysfs_get_dirent(parent_sd, old);
+ if (!sd)
+ goto out;
+
+ result = -EINVAL;
+ if (sysfs_type(sd) != SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK)
+ goto out;
+ if (sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_dir.kobj != targ)
+ goto out;
+
+ result = sysfs_rename(sd, parent_sd, new);
+
+out:
+ sysfs_put(sd);
+ return result;
+}
+
static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
struct sysfs_dirent *target_sd, char *path)
{