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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-05-13 21:31:40 (GMT)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-07-01 15:36:45 (GMT)
commit87d2846fcf88113fae2341da1ca9a71f0d916f2c (patch)
tree5aaf304f79f21e633d2efac5107266ff11dca2a1 /fs
parentea015218f2f7ace2dad9cedd21ed95bdba2886d7 (diff)
downloadlinux-87d2846fcf88113fae2341da1ca9a71f0d916f2c.tar.xz
sysfs: Add support for permanently empty directories to serve as mount points.
Add two functions sysfs_create_mount_point and sysfs_remove_mount_point that hang a permanently empty directory off of a kobject or remove a permanently emptpy directory hanging from a kobject. Export these new functions so modular filesystems can use them. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c34
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 0b45ff4..94374e4 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -121,3 +121,37 @@ int sysfs_move_dir_ns(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent_kobj,
return kernfs_rename_ns(kn, new_parent, kn->name, new_ns);
}
+
+/**
+ * sysfs_create_mount_point - create an always empty directory
+ * @parent_kobj: kobject that will contain this always empty directory
+ * @name: The name of the always empty directory to add
+ */
+int sysfs_create_mount_point(struct kobject *parent_kobj, const char *name)
+{
+ struct kernfs_node *kn, *parent = parent_kobj->sd;
+
+ kn = kernfs_create_empty_dir(parent, name);
+ if (IS_ERR(kn)) {
+ if (PTR_ERR(kn) == -EEXIST)
+ sysfs_warn_dup(parent, name);
+ return PTR_ERR(kn);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_mount_point);
+
+/**
+ * sysfs_remove_mount_point - remove an always empty directory.
+ * @parent_kobj: kobject that will contain this always empty directory
+ * @name: The name of the always empty directory to remove
+ *
+ */
+void sysfs_remove_mount_point(struct kobject *parent_kobj, const char *name)
+{
+ struct kernfs_node *parent = parent_kobj->sd;
+
+ kernfs_remove_by_name_ns(parent, name, NULL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_mount_point);