From: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 02:30:46 +0200
> While commit bb35a6ef7da4 ("bpf, inode: allow for rename and link ops")
> added support for hard links that can be used for prog and map nodes,
> this work adds simple symlink support, which can be used f.e. for
> directories also when unpriviledged and works with cmdline tooling that
> understands S_IFLNK anyway. Since the switch in e27f4a942a0e ("bpf: Use
> mount_nodev not mount_ns to mount the bpf filesystem"), there can be
> various mount instances with mount_nodev() and thus hierarchy can be
> flattened to facilitate object sharing. Thus, we can keep bpf tooling
> also working by repointing paths.
>
> Most of the functionality can be used from vfs library operations. The
> symlink is stored in the inode itself, that is in i_link, which is
> sufficient in our case as opposed to storing it in the page cache.
> While at it, I noticed that bpf_mkdir() and bpf_mkobj() don't update
> the directories mtime and ctime, so add a common helper for it called
> bpf_dentry_finalize() that takes care of it for all cases now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <a...@kernel.org>
Applied, thanks Daniel.
