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From: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
To: neilb@suse.de
Cc: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>,
	corbet@lwn.net, vegard.nossum@oracle.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, rdunlap@infradead.org,
	grandmaster@al2klimov.de, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 11/13] docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 17:16:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210527091618.287093-12-foxhlchen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210527091618.287093-1-foxhlchen@gmail.com>

get_link() is merged into pick_link(). i_op->follow_link is
replaced with i_op->get_link(). get_link() can return ERR_PTR(0)
which equals NULL.

Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index 08e6306af5b1..3f03fbbc9429 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -1136,10 +1136,10 @@ Symlinks with no final component
 
 A pair of special-case symlinks deserve a little further explanation.
 Both result in a new ``struct path`` (with mount and dentry) being set
-up in the ``nameidata``, and result in ``get_link()`` returning ``NULL``.
+up in the ``nameidata``, and result in ``pick_link()`` returning ``NULL``.
 
 The more obvious case is a symlink to "``/``".  All symlinks starting
-with "``/``" are detected in ``get_link()`` which resets the ``nameidata``
+with "``/``" are detected in ``pick_link()`` which resets the ``nameidata``
 to point to the effective filesystem root.  If the symlink only
 contains "``/``" then there is nothing more to do, no components at all,
 so ``NULL`` is returned to indicate that the symlink can be released and
@@ -1156,12 +1156,11 @@ something that looks like a symlink.  It is really a reference to the
 target file, not just the name of it.  When you ``readlink`` these
 objects you get a name that might refer to the same file - unless it
 has been unlinked or mounted over.  When ``walk_component()`` follows
-one of these, the ``->follow_link()`` method in "procfs" doesn't return
+one of these, the ``->get_link()`` method in "procfs" doesn't return
 a string name, but instead calls ``nd_jump_link()`` which updates the
-``nameidata`` in place to point to that target.  ``->follow_link()`` then
-returns ``NULL``.  Again there is no final component and ``get_link()``
-reports this by leaving the ``last_type`` field of ``nameidata`` as
-``LAST_BIND``.
+``nameidata`` in place to point to that target.  ``->get_link()`` then
+returns ``NULL``.  Again there is no final component and ``pick_link()``
+returns ``NULL``.
 
 Following the symlink in the final component
 --------------------------------------------
-- 
2.31.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-27  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-27  9:16 [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] docs: path-lookup: no get_link() Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc Fox Chen
2021-06-17 22:31   ` NeilBrown
2021-05-27  9:16 ` Fox Chen [this message]
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] docs: path-lookup: update symlink description Fox Chen
2021-05-27  9:16 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals Fox Chen
2021-06-17 22:35 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] docs: path-lookup: Update pathlookup docs NeilBrown
2021-06-18  1:00   ` Fox Chen
2021-06-18 17:39 ` Jonathan Corbet

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