From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:19:10 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: new helper: simple_remove_by_name()
X-Git-Tag: v6.19-rc1~111^2~51
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4051a9115ad24bb9a691774730ca9c1dd56de665;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

new helper: simple_remove_by_name()

simple_recursive_removal(), but instead of victim dentry it takes
parent + name.

Used to be open-coded in fs/fuse/control.c, but there's no need to expose
the guts of that thing there and there are other potential users, so
let's lift it into libfs...

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/fs/fuse/control.c b/fs/fuse/control.c
index 5247df896c5d0..3dca752127ff8 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/control.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/control.c
@@ -290,18 +290,13 @@ static void remove_one(struct dentry *dentry)
  */
 void fuse_ctl_remove_conn(struct fuse_conn *fc)
 {
-	struct dentry *dentry;
 	char name[32];
 
 	if (!fuse_control_sb || fc->no_control)
 		return;
 
 	sprintf(name, "%u", fc->dev);
-	dentry = lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked(&QSTR(name), fuse_control_sb->s_root);
-	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
-		simple_recursive_removal(dentry, remove_one);
-		dput(dentry);	// paired with lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked()
-	}
+	simple_remove_by_name(fuse_control_sb->s_root, name, remove_one);
 }
 
 static int fuse_ctl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fsc)
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index ce8c496a6940a..d029aff41f666 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -655,6 +655,19 @@ void simple_recursive_removal(struct dentry *dentry,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_recursive_removal);
 
+void simple_remove_by_name(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
+                           void (*callback)(struct dentry *))
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry;
+
+	dentry = lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked(&QSTR(name), parent);
+	if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+		simple_recursive_removal(dentry, callback);
+		dput(dentry);	// paired with lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked()
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_remove_by_name);
+
 /* caller holds parent directory with I_MUTEX_PARENT */
 void locked_recursive_removal(struct dentry *dentry,
                               void (*callback)(struct dentry *))
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index c895146c1444b..28bd4e8d38925 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3631,6 +3631,8 @@ extern int simple_rename(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,
 			 unsigned int);
 extern void simple_recursive_removal(struct dentry *,
                               void (*callback)(struct dentry *));
+extern void simple_remove_by_name(struct dentry *, const char *,
+                              void (*callback)(struct dentry *));
 extern void locked_recursive_removal(struct dentry *,
                               void (*callback)(struct dentry *));
 extern int noop_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);