sysfs: Add support for permanently empty directories to serve as mount points.
Add two functions sysfs_create_mount_point and
sysfs_remove_mount_point that hang a permanently empty directory off
of a kobject or remove a permanently emptpy directory hanging from a
kobject. Export these new functions so modular filesystems can use
them.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 99382c0..9f65758 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@
int __must_check sysfs_move_dir_ns(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobject *new_parent_kobj,
const void *new_ns);
+int __must_check sysfs_create_mount_point(struct kobject *parent_kobj,
+ const char *name);
+void sysfs_remove_mount_point(struct kobject *parent_kobj,
+ const char *name);
int __must_check sysfs_create_file_ns(struct kobject *kobj,
const struct attribute *attr,
@@ -298,6 +302,17 @@
return 0;
}
+static inline int sysfs_create_mount_point(struct kobject *parent_kobj,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void sysfs_remove_mount_point(struct kobject *parent_kobj,
+ const char *name)
+{
+}
+
static inline int sysfs_create_file_ns(struct kobject *kobj,
const struct attribute *attr,
const void *ns)