On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 06:28:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. > +int __init init_symlink(const char *oldname, const char *newname) > +{ > + struct filename *from = getname_kernel(oldname); What the hell for? You are only using from ->name later. > + struct dentry *dentry; > + struct path path; > + int error; > + > + if (IS_ERR(from)) > + return PTR_ERR(from); > + dentry = kern_path_create(AT_FDCWD, newname, &path, 0); > + error = PTR_ERR(dentry); > + if (IS_ERR(dentry)) > + goto out_putname; > + error = security_path_symlink(&path, dentry, from->name); > + if (!error) > + error = vfs_symlink(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, from->name); > + done_path_create(&path, dentry); > +out_putname: > + putname(from); > + return error; > +} And again, the same comment regarding the location of file.