linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/32] uts: use ns_common

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Message-Id: <20250910-work-namespace-v1-12-4dd56e7359d8@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:36:57 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, 
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, 
 Mike Yuan <me@...dnzj.com>, 
 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@...waw.pl>, 
 Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>, 
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 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, 
 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, 
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 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, 
 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, 
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 12/32] uts: use ns_common_init()

Don't cargo-cult the same thing over and over.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/utsname.c | 16 ++--------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
index b1ac3ca870f2..02037010b378 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -27,16 +27,6 @@ static void dec_uts_namespaces(struct ucounts *ucounts)
 	dec_ucount(ucounts, UCOUNT_UTS_NAMESPACES);
 }
 
-static struct uts_namespace *create_uts_ns(void)
-{
-	struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
-
-	uts_ns = kmem_cache_alloc(uts_ns_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (uts_ns)
-		refcount_set(&uts_ns->ns.count, 1);
-	return uts_ns;
-}
-
 /*
  * Clone a new ns copying an original utsname, setting refcount to 1
  * @old_ns: namespace to clone
@@ -55,17 +45,15 @@ static struct uts_namespace *clone_uts_ns(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
 		goto fail;
 
 	err = -ENOMEM;
-	ns = create_uts_ns();
+	ns = kmem_cache_zalloc(uts_ns_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ns)
 		goto fail_dec;
 
-	err = ns_alloc_inum(&ns->ns);
+	err = ns_common_init(&ns->ns, &utsns_operations, true);
 	if (err)
 		goto fail_free;
 
 	ns->ucounts = ucounts;
-	ns->ns.ops = &utsns_operations;
-
 	down_read(&uts_sem);
 	memcpy(&ns->name, &old_ns->name, sizeof(ns->name));
 	ns->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);

-- 
2.47.3