On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Dominik Brodowski
<li...@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.
Arnd
