init: add an init_symlink helper

Add a simple helper to symlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it.  Remove the now unused ksys_symlink.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/init.c b/fs/init.c
index 5db9d9f74868..09ef2b58d48c 100644
--- a/fs/init.c
+++ b/fs/init.c
@@ -155,6 +155,22 @@ out:
 	return error;
 }
 
+int __init init_symlink(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+	struct path path;
+	int error;
+
+	dentry = kern_path_create(AT_FDCWD, newname, &path, 0);
+	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+		return PTR_ERR(dentry);
+	error = security_path_symlink(&path, dentry, oldname);
+	if (!error)
+		error = vfs_symlink(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, oldname);
+	done_path_create(&path, dentry);
+	return error;
+}
+
 int __init init_unlink(const char *pathname)
 {
 	return do_unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, getname_kernel(pathname));