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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/libfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/libfs.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index 9efb647917e0..4b59b1816efb 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -1169,6 +1169,20 @@ simple_nosetlease(struct file *filp, long arg, struct file_lock **flp, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_nosetlease); +/** + * simple_get_link - generic helper to get the target of "fast" symlinks + * @dentry: not used here + * @inode: the symlink inode + * @done: not used here + * + * Generic helper for filesystems to use for symlink inodes where a pointer to + * the symlink target is stored in ->i_link. NOTE: this isn't normally called, + * since as an optimization the path lookup code uses any non-NULL ->i_link + * directly, without calling ->get_link(). But ->get_link() still must be set, + * to mark the inode_operations as being for a symlink. + * + * Return: the symlink target + */ const char *simple_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, struct delayed_call *done) { |