[patch] symlink creation broken in shmem.c

From: Christoph Rohland (cr@sap.com)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 09:14:30 EST


Hi Linus,

The shmem_symlink function is completely broken in 2.4.0 and never
worked.

This patch removes the function from 2.4.0

Greetings
                Christoph

P.S.: For those which test read/write support patch: I will post patch
      for my swapfs soon which will make it working on top of that

diff -uNr 2.4.0/mm/shmem.c 2.4.0-nosymlink/mm/shmem.c
--- 2.4.0/mm/shmem.c Sat Jan 13 14:20:51 2001
+++ 2.4.0-nosymlink/mm/shmem.c Sat Jan 13 14:18:26 2001
@@ -374,8 +374,7 @@
                         inode->i_fop = &shmem_dir_operations;
                         break;
                 case S_IFLNK:
- inode->i_op = &page_symlink_inode_operations;
- break;
+ BUG();
                 }
                 spin_lock (&shmem_ilock);
                 list_add (&inode->u.shmem_i.list, &shmem_inodes);
@@ -528,19 +527,6 @@
         return error;
 }
 
-static int shmem_symlink(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char * symname)
-{
- int error;
-
- error = shmem_mknod(dir, dentry, S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO, 0);
- if (!error) {
- int l = strlen(symname)+1;
- struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- error = block_symlink(inode, symname, l);
- }
- return error;
-}
-
 static int shmem_mmap(struct file * file, struct vm_area_struct * vma)
 {
         struct vm_operations_struct * ops;
@@ -677,7 +663,6 @@
         lookup: shmem_lookup,
         link: shmem_link,
         unlink: shmem_unlink,
- symlink: shmem_symlink,
         mkdir: shmem_mkdir,
         rmdir: shmem_rmdir,
         mknod: shmem_mknod,

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