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>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 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));