fs: fold __start_removing_path into start_removing_path

Only one caller left, and simplified this way.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511072239.2456725-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index bc641838530f4cc52341b1cb50efa20e6d48e0f5..4852ca208bd4baaf22e139b9492ae9a0b5fbe69c 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2955,15 +2955,16 @@ void end_dirop(struct dentry *de)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(end_dirop);
 
 /* does lookup, returns the object with parent locked */
-static struct dentry *__start_removing_path(int dfd, struct filename *name,
-                                          struct path *path)
+struct dentry *start_removing_path(const char *name, struct path *path)
 {
+       CLASS(filename_kernel, filename)(name);
        struct path parent_path __free(path_put) = {};
        struct dentry *d;
        struct qstr last;
        int type, error;
 
-       error = filename_parentat(dfd, name, 0, &parent_path, &last, &type);
+       error = filename_parentat(AT_FDCWD, filename, 0, &parent_path, &last,
+                       &type);
        if (error)
                return ERR_PTR(error);
        if (unlikely(type != LAST_NORM))
@@ -3023,12 +3024,6 @@ struct dentry *kern_path_parent(const char *name, struct path *path)
        return d;
 }
 
-struct dentry *start_removing_path(const char *name, struct path *path)
-{
-       CLASS(filename_kernel, filename)(name);
-       return __start_removing_path(AT_FDCWD, filename, path);
-}
-
 int kern_path(const char *name, unsigned int flags, struct path *path)
 {
        CLASS(filename_kernel, filename)(name);