init: add an init_link helper

Add a simple helper to link with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it.  Remove the now unused ksys_link.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

3 files changed, 36 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/init.c b/fs/init.c
index 6d9af40d2897..5db9d9f74868 100644
--- a/fs/init.c
+++ b/fs/init.c
@@ -122,6 +122,39 @@ int __init init_eaccess(const char *filename)
 	return error;
 }
 
+int __init init_link(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
+{
+	struct dentry *new_dentry;
+	struct path old_path, new_path;
+	int error;
+
+	error = kern_path(oldname, 0, &old_path);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
+	new_dentry = kern_path_create(AT_FDCWD, newname, &new_path, 0);
+	error = PTR_ERR(new_dentry);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_dentry))
+		goto out;
+
+	error = -EXDEV;
+	if (old_path.mnt != new_path.mnt)
+		goto out_dput;
+	error = may_linkat(&old_path);
+	if (unlikely(error))
+		goto out_dput;
+	error = security_path_link(old_path.dentry, &new_path, new_dentry);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_dput;
+	error = vfs_link(old_path.dentry, new_path.dentry->d_inode, new_dentry,
+			 NULL);
+out_dput:
+	done_path_create(&new_path, new_dentry);
+out:
+	path_put(&old_path);
+	return error;
+}
+
 int __init init_unlink(const char *pathname)
 {
 	return do_unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(pathname));
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 6d82681c7d83..58451b033d26 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -69,8 +69,7 @@ long do_rmdir(int dfd, struct filename *name);
 long do_unlinkat(int dfd, struct filename *name);
 long do_symlinkat(const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
 		  const char __user *newname);
-int do_linkat(int olddfd, const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
-	      const char __user *newname, int flags);
+int may_linkat(struct path *link);
 
 /*
  * namespace.c
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d75a6039ae39..13de64c6be76 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ static bool safe_hardlink_source(struct inode *inode)
  *
  * Returns 0 if successful, -ve on error.
  */
-static int may_linkat(struct path *link)
+int may_linkat(struct path *link)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = link->dentry->d_inode;
 
@@ -4086,7 +4086,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_link);
  * with linux 2.0, and to avoid hard-linking to directories
  * and other special files.  --ADM
  */
-int do_linkat(int olddfd, const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
+static int do_linkat(int olddfd, const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
 	      const char __user *newname, int flags)
 {
 	struct dentry *new_dentry;