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author | Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> | 2020-02-27 04:37:12 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-02-27 05:07:25 +0100 |
commit | 0666a3aee762cd4f7981c2eed0fd8cab87533539 (patch) | |
tree | 777513bd25867a6d981901eb0987fb90fcdd68ee /fs/sysfs | |
parent | sysfs: add sysfs_file_change_owner() (diff) | |
download | linux-0666a3aee762cd4f7981c2eed0fd8cab87533539.tar.xz linux-0666a3aee762cd4f7981c2eed0fd8cab87533539.zip |
sysfs: add sysfs_link_change_owner()
Add a helper to change the owner of a sysfs link.
This function will be used to correctly account for kobject ownership
changes, e.g. when moving network devices between network namespaces.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/file.c | 41 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c index 4ca936ca3ba4..332cd69b378c 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -571,6 +571,47 @@ static int internal_change_owner(struct kernfs_node *kn, kuid_t kuid, } /** + * sysfs_link_change_owner - change owner of a sysfs file. + * @kobj: object of the kernfs_node the symlink is located in. + * @targ: object of the kernfs_node the symlink points to. + * @name: name of the link. + * @kuid: new owner's kuid + * @kgid: new owner's kgid + * + * This function looks up the sysfs symlink entry @name under @kobj and changes + * the ownership to @kuid/@kgid. The symlink is looked up in the namespace of + * @targ. + * + * Returns 0 on success or error code on failure. + */ +int sysfs_link_change_owner(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ, + const char *name, kuid_t kuid, kgid_t kgid) +{ + struct kernfs_node *kn = NULL; + int error; + + if (!name || !kobj->state_in_sysfs || !targ->state_in_sysfs) + return -EINVAL; + + error = -ENOENT; + kn = kernfs_find_and_get_ns(kobj->sd, name, targ->sd->ns); + if (!kn) + goto out; + + error = -EINVAL; + if (kernfs_type(kn) != KERNFS_LINK) + goto out; + if (kn->symlink.target_kn->priv != targ) + goto out; + + error = internal_change_owner(kn, kuid, kgid); + +out: + kernfs_put(kn); + return error; +} + +/** * sysfs_file_change_owner - change owner of a sysfs file. * @kobj: object. * @name: name of the file to change. |