debugfs: implement symbolic links

debugfs: implement symbolic links

Implement a new function debugfs_create_symlink() which can be used
to create symbolic links in debugfs. This function can be useful
for people moving functionality from /proc to debugfs (e.g. the
gcov-kernel patch).

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 72 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index c692487346ea..9c51a9f630a1 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -25,11 +25,13 @@
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/fsnotify.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 
 #define DEBUGFS_MAGIC   0x64626720
 
 /* declared over in file.c */
 extern struct file_operations debugfs_file_operations;
+extern struct inode_operations debugfs_link_operations;
 
 static struct vfsmount *debugfs_mount;
 static int debugfs_mount_count;
@@ -51,6 +53,9 @@ static struct inode *debugfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode, dev_t d
                 case S_IFREG:
                         inode->i_fop = &debugfs_file_operations;
                         break;
+                case S_IFLNK:
+                        inode->i_op = &debugfs_link_operations;
+                        break;
                 case S_IFDIR:
                         inode->i_op = &simple_dir_inode_operations;
                         inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
@@ -96,6 +101,12 @@ static int debugfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
         return res;
 }
 
+static int debugfs_link(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
+{
+        mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFLNK;
+        return debugfs_mknod(dir, dentry, mode, 0);
+}
+
 static int debugfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
 {
         int res;
@@ -158,10 +169,17 @@ static int debugfs_create_by_name(const char *name, mode_t mode,
         mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
         *dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
         if (!IS_ERR(*dentry)) {
-                if ((mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
+                switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
+                case S_IFDIR:
                         error = debugfs_mkdir(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
-                else 
+                        break;
+                case S_IFLNK:
+                        error = debugfs_link(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
+                        break;
+                default:
                         error = debugfs_create(parent->d_inode, *dentry, mode);
+                        break;
+                }
                 dput(*dentry);
         } else
                 error = PTR_ERR(*dentry);
@@ -259,6 +277,49 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_dir);
 
 /**
+ * debugfs_create_symlink- create a symbolic link in the debugfs filesystem
+ * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the symbolic link to
+ *        create.
+ * @parent: a pointer to the parent dentry for this symbolic link.  This
+ *          should be a directory dentry if set.  If this paramater is NULL,
+ *          then the symbolic link will be created in the root of the debugfs
+ *          filesystem.
+ * @target: a pointer to a string containing the path to the target of the
+ *          symbolic link.
+ *
+ * This function creates a symbolic link with the given name in debugfs that
+ * links to the given target path.
+ *
+ * This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds.  This
+ * pointer must be passed to the debugfs_remove() function when the symbolic
+ * link is to be removed (no automatic cleanup happens if your module is
+ * unloaded, you are responsible here.)  If an error occurs, %NULL will be
+ * returned.
+ *
+ * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be
+ * returned.  It is not wise to check for this value, but rather, check for
+ * %NULL or !%NULL instead as to eliminate the need for #ifdef in the calling
+ * code.
+ */
+struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
+                                      const char *target)
+{
+        struct dentry *result;
+        char *link;
+
+        link = kstrdup(target, GFP_KERNEL);
+        if (!link)
+                return NULL;
+
+        result = debugfs_create_file(name, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO, parent, link,
+                                     NULL);
+        if (!result)
+                kfree(link);
+        return result;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_symlink);
+
+/**
  * debugfs_remove - removes a file or directory from the debugfs filesystem
  * @dentry: a pointer to a the dentry of the file or directory to be
  *          removed.
@@ -287,15 +348,22 @@ void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
         if (debugfs_positive(dentry)) {
                 if (dentry->d_inode) {
                         dget(dentry);
-                        if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
+                        switch (dentry->d_inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
+                        case S_IFDIR:
                                 ret = simple_rmdir(parent->d_inode, dentry);
                                 if (ret)
                                         printk(KERN_ERR
                                                 "DebugFS rmdir on %s failed : "
                                                 "directory not empty.\n",
                                                 dentry->d_name.name);
-                        } else
+                                break;
+                        case S_IFLNK:
+                                kfree(dentry->d_inode->i_private);
+                                /* fall through */
+                        default:
                                 simple_unlink(parent->d_inode, dentry);
+                                break;
+                        }
                         if (!ret)
                                 d_delete(dentry);
                         dput(dentry);