All filesystems that are backers for overlayfs would also use
generic_readlink(). Move this logic to the overlay itself, which is a nice
cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
-static int ovl_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buf, int bufsiz)
-{
- struct path realpath;
- struct inode *realinode;
- const struct cred *old_cred;
- int err;
-
- ovl_path_real(dentry, &realpath);
- realinode = realpath.dentry->d_inode;
-
- if (!realinode->i_op->readlink)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- old_cred = ovl_override_creds(dentry->d_sb);
- err = realinode->i_op->readlink(realpath.dentry, buf, bufsiz);
- revert_creds(old_cred);
- return err;
-}
-
bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name)
{
return strncmp(name, OVL_XATTR_PREFIX,
bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name)
{
return strncmp(name, OVL_XATTR_PREFIX,
static const struct inode_operations ovl_symlink_inode_operations = {
.setattr = ovl_setattr,
.get_link = ovl_get_link,
static const struct inode_operations ovl_symlink_inode_operations = {
.setattr = ovl_setattr,
.get_link = ovl_get_link,
- .readlink = ovl_readlink,
+ .readlink = generic_readlink,
.getattr = ovl_getattr,
.setxattr = generic_setxattr,
.getxattr = generic_getxattr,
.getattr = ovl_getattr,
.setxattr = generic_setxattr,
.getxattr = generic_getxattr,