From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:55:39 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fs: remove vfs_ioctl export
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~242^2~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5bca063c150877c45b88ff134b6ef7a5eae8e7a;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

fs: remove vfs_ioctl export

vfs_ioctl() is no longer called by anything outside of fs/ioctl.c, so
remove the global symbol and export as it is not needed.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2025083038-carving-amuck-a4ae@gregkh
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index 83d07218b6cd0..1c152c2b1b67d 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -errno on error.
  */
-int vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+static int vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	int error = -ENOTTY;
 
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ int vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
  out:
 	return error;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_ioctl);
 
 static int ioctl_fibmap(struct file *filp, int __user *p)
 {
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 34693cae15a29..4daf9b30a6411 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2053,8 +2053,6 @@ int vfs_fchown(struct file *file, uid_t user, gid_t group);
 int vfs_fchmod(struct file *file, umode_t mode);
 int vfs_utimes(const struct path *path, struct timespec64 *times);
 
-int vfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 extern long compat_ptr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 					unsigned long arg);