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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y 1/3] new helper: simple_remove_by_name()
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:54:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720105452.216179-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026071425-shield-overhung-4ba9@gregkh>

From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[ Upstream commit 4051a9115ad24bb9a691774730ca9c1dd56de665 ]

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>
Stable-dep-of: 8bdcf96eb135 ("usb: gadget: f_fs: Tie read_buffer lifetime to ffs_epfile")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/fuse/control.c  |  7 +------
 fs/libfs.c         | 13 +++++++++++++
 include/linux/fs.h |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/control.c b/fs/fuse/control.c
index ce11f4b427c281..2e300f6d646c31 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 96551deff8e501..52f00bfc8f7baa 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -647,6 +647,19 @@ 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 39269c7d167e6d..95986609923592 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3654,6 +3654,8 @@ 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);
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-20 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-14 16:50 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: Tie read_buffer lifetime to ffs_epfile" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-20 10:54 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-07-20 10:54   ` [PATCH 6.18.y 2/3] functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() Sasha Levin
2026-07-20 10:54   ` [PATCH 6.18.y 3/3] usb: gadget: f_fs: Tie read_buffer lifetime to ffs_epfile Sasha Levin

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