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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 77fd536106cb..d20191c0ebf5 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -4346,6 +4346,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(rename, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newna return sys_renameat2(AT_FDCWD, oldname, AT_FDCWD, newname, 0); } +int vfs_whiteout(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) +{ + int error = may_create(dir, dentry); + if (error) + return error; + + if (!dir->i_op->mknod) + return -EPERM; + + return dir->i_op->mknod(dir, dentry, + S_IFCHR | WHITEOUT_MODE, WHITEOUT_DEV); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_whiteout); + int readlink_copy(char __user *buffer, int buflen, const char *link) { int len = PTR_ERR(link); |