From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:16:59 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: ovl: remove ovl_lock_rename_workdir()
X-Git-Tag: v7.1-rc1~245^2^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54d7ea7324e65023ec931ddb470019db066c165d;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

ovl: remove ovl_lock_rename_workdir()

This function is unused since
   Commit 833d2b3a072f ("Add start_renaming_two_dentries()")

Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-15-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 714a1cec37095..6fb99c583c31d 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -569,8 +569,6 @@ bool ovl_is_inuse(struct dentry *dentry);
 bool ovl_need_index(struct dentry *dentry);
 int ovl_nlink_start(struct dentry *dentry);
 void ovl_nlink_end(struct dentry *dentry);
-int ovl_lock_rename_workdir(struct dentry *workdir, struct dentry *work,
-			    struct dentry *upperdir, struct dentry *upper);
 int ovl_check_metacopy_xattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, const struct path *path,
 			     struct ovl_metacopy *data);
 int ovl_set_metacopy_xattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *d,
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index 3f1b763a8bb4c..aa2a32793c2fb 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -1213,31 +1213,6 @@ void ovl_nlink_end(struct dentry *dentry)
 	ovl_inode_unlock(inode);
 }
 
-int ovl_lock_rename_workdir(struct dentry *workdir, struct dentry *work,
-			    struct dentry *upperdir, struct dentry *upper)
-{
-	struct dentry *trap;
-
-	/* Workdir should not be subdir of upperdir and vice versa */
-	trap = lock_rename(workdir, upperdir);
-	if (IS_ERR(trap))
-		goto err;
-	if (trap)
-		goto err_unlock;
-	if (work && (work->d_parent != workdir || d_unhashed(work)))
-		goto err_unlock;
-	if (upper && (upper->d_parent != upperdir || d_unhashed(upper)))
-		goto err_unlock;
-
-	return 0;
-
-err_unlock:
-	unlock_rename(workdir, upperdir);
-err:
-	pr_err("failed to lock workdir+upperdir\n");
-	return -EIO;
-}
-
 /*
  * err < 0, 0 if no metacopy xattr, metacopy data size if xattr found.
  * an empty xattr returns OVL_METACOPY_MIN_SIZE to distinguish from no xattr value.