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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2010-02-12 19:22:25 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-03-07 17:04:52 -0800
commit7cb32942d91a501b2df944928ccc9e6590ab237b (patch)
tree7c6ff2a82705d7dda8a566702f3bab981d03bf54 /fs/sysfs/symlink.c
parent19c38b632d4554329986021fd66bdea468cf452c (diff)
downloadlinux-7cb32942d91a501b2df944928ccc9e6590ab237b.tar.gz
sysfs: Implement sysfs_rename_link
Because of rename ordering problems we occassionally give false
warnings about invalid sysfs operations.  So using sysfs_rename
create a sysfs_rename_link function that doesn't need strange
workarounds.

Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs/symlink.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/symlink.c38
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index c5eff49fa41b..1b9a3a1e8a17 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -123,6 +123,44 @@ void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject * kobj, const char * name)
 	sysfs_hash_and_remove(parent_sd, name);
 }
 
+/**
+ *	sysfs_rename_link - rename symlink in object's directory.
+ *	@kobj:	object we're acting for.
+ *	@targ:	object we're pointing to.
+ *	@old:	previous name of the symlink.
+ *	@new:	new name of the symlink.
+ *
+ *	A helper function for the common rename symlink idiom.
+ */
+int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
+			const char *old, const char *new)
+{
+	struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, *sd = NULL;
+	int result;
+
+	if (!kobj)
+		parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
+	else
+		parent_sd = kobj->sd;
+
+	result = -ENOENT;
+	sd = sysfs_get_dirent(parent_sd, old);
+	if (!sd)
+		goto out;
+
+	result = -EINVAL;
+	if (sysfs_type(sd) != SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK)
+		goto out;
+	if (sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_dir.kobj != targ)
+		goto out;
+
+	result = sysfs_rename(sd, parent_sd, new);
+
+out:
+	sysfs_put(sd);
+	return result;
+}
+
 static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
 				 struct sysfs_dirent *target_sd, char *path)
 {