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>
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 8d130cc..682f928 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/namei.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
static ssize_t default_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
@@ -44,6 +45,17 @@
.open = default_open,
};
+static void *debugfs_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+ nd_set_link(nd, dentry->d_inode->i_private);
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+const struct inode_operations debugfs_link_operations = {
+ .readlink = generic_readlink,
+ .follow_link = debugfs_follow_link,
+};
+
static void debugfs_u8_set(void *data, u64 val)
{
*(u8 *)data = val;