Merge uncontroversial parts of branch 'readlink' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs

Pull partial readlink cleanups from Miklos Szeredi.

This is the uncontroversial part of the readlink cleanup patch-set that
simplifies the default readlink handling.

Miklos and Al are still discussing the rest of the series.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
  vfs: make generic_readlink() static
  vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments
  vfs: default to generic_readlink()
  vfs: replace calling i_op->readlink with vfs_readlink()
  proc/self: use generic_readlink
  ecryptfs: use vfs_get_link()
  bad_inode: add missing i_op initializers
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Linus Torvalds
2016-12-17 19:16:12 -08:00
46 changed files with 120 additions and 110 deletions

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@@ -596,3 +596,7 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
[mandatory]
->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the
filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned.
--
[recommended]
->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs
to fake something for readlink(2).

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@@ -451,9 +451,6 @@ otherwise noted.
exist; this is checked by the VFS. Unlike plain rename,
source and target may be of different type.
readlink: called by the readlink(2) system call. Only required if
you want to support reading symbolic links
get_link: called by the VFS to follow a symbolic link to the
inode it points to. Only required if you want to support
symbolic links. This method returns the symlink body
@@ -468,6 +465,12 @@ otherwise noted.
argument. If request can't be handled without leaving RCU mode,
have it return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD).
readlink: this is now just an override for use by readlink(2) for the
cases when ->get_link uses nd_jump_link() or object is not in
fact a symlink. Normally filesystems should only implement
->get_link for symlinks and readlink(2) will automatically use
that.
permission: called by the VFS to check for access rights on a POSIX-like
filesystem.