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Message-ID: <20260108074201.435280-4-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2026 07:41:56 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	brauner@...nel.org,
	jack@...e.cz,
	mjguzik@...il.com,
	paul@...l-moore.com,
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	io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/8] non-consuming variant of do_symlinkat()

similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_symlinkat()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst |  6 +++---
 fs/init.c                             |  5 +++--
 fs/internal.h                         |  2 +-
 fs/namei.c                            | 12 +++++++-----
 io_uring/fs.c                         |  5 +++--
 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 8ecbc41d6d82..c44c351bc297 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1339,6 +1339,6 @@ in-tree filesystems have done).
 
 **mandatory**
 
-do_{link,renameat2}() are gone; filename_{link,renameat2}() replaces those.
-The difference is that the former used to consume filename references;
-the latter do not.
+do_{link,symlink,renameat2}() are gone; filename_...() counterparts
+replace those.  The difference is that the former used to consume
+filename references; the latter do not.
diff --git a/fs/init.c b/fs/init.c
index f46e54552931..a54ef750ffe3 100644
--- a/fs/init.c
+++ b/fs/init.c
@@ -152,8 +152,9 @@ int __init init_link(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
 
 int __init init_symlink(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
 {
-	return do_symlinkat(getname_kernel(oldname), AT_FDCWD,
-			    getname_kernel(newname));
+	CLASS(filename_kernel, old)(oldname);
+	CLASS(filename_kernel, new)(newname);
+	return filename_symlinkat(old, AT_FDCWD, new);
 }
 
 int __init init_unlink(const char *pathname)
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index c9b70c2716d1..4a63b89c02d7 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ int filename_renameat2(int olddfd, struct filename *oldname, int newdfd,
 		 struct filename *newname, unsigned int flags);
 int do_mkdirat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode);
 int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode, unsigned int dev);
-int do_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to);
+int filename_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to);
 int filename_linkat(int olddfd, struct filename *old, int newdfd,
 			struct filename *new, int flags);
 int vfs_tmpfile(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 1f003ac9470e..338e2934c520 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -5541,10 +5541,8 @@ int vfs_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_symlink);
 
-int do_symlinkat(struct filename *__from, int newdfd, struct filename *__to)
+int filename_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to)
 {
-	CLASS(filename_consume, from)(__from);
-	CLASS(filename_consume, to)(__to);
 	int error;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct path path;
@@ -5578,12 +5576,16 @@ int do_symlinkat(struct filename *__from, int newdfd, struct filename *__to)
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(symlinkat, const char __user *, oldname,
 		int, newdfd, const char __user *, newname)
 {
-	return do_symlinkat(getname(oldname), newdfd, getname(newname));
+	CLASS(filename, old)(oldname);
+	CLASS(filename, new)(newname);
+	return filename_symlinkat(old, newdfd, new);
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(symlink, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newname)
 {
-	return do_symlinkat(getname(oldname), AT_FDCWD, getname(newname));
+	CLASS(filename, old)(oldname);
+	CLASS(filename, new)(newname);
+	return filename_symlinkat(old, AT_FDCWD, new);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/io_uring/fs.c b/io_uring/fs.c
index e39cd1ca1942..cd4d88d37795 100644
--- a/io_uring/fs.c
+++ b/io_uring/fs.c
@@ -233,12 +233,13 @@ int io_symlinkat_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe)
 int io_symlinkat(struct io_kiocb *req, unsigned int issue_flags)
 {
 	struct io_link *sl = io_kiocb_to_cmd(req, struct io_link);
+	CLASS(filename_complete_delayed, old)(&sl->oldpath);
+	CLASS(filename_complete_delayed, new)(&sl->newpath);
 	int ret;
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(issue_flags & IO_URING_F_NONBLOCK);
 
-	ret = do_symlinkat(complete_getname(&sl->oldpath), sl->new_dfd,
-			   complete_getname(&sl->newpath));
+	ret = filename_symlinkat(old, sl->new_dfd, new);
 
 	req->flags &= ~REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP;
 	io_req_set_res(req, ret, 0);
-- 
2.47.3