[apparmor] [PATCH 07/13] VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.

[Jeff Layton]

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 15:57 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> From: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>
> 
> lookup_one_qstr_excl() is no longer used outside of namei.c, so
> make it static.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 7 +++++++
>  fs/namei.c                            | 5 ++---
>  include/linux/namei.h                 | 3 ---
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> index ed3ac56e3c76..ed86c95d9d01 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
> @@ -1340,3 +1340,10 @@ The ->setlease() file_operation must now be explicitly set in order to provide
>  support for leases. When set to NULL, the kernel will now return -EINVAL to
>  attempts to set a lease. Filesystems that wish to use the kernel-internal lease
>  implementation should set it to generic_setlease().
> +
> +---
> +
> +**mandatory**
> +
> +lookup_one_qstr_excl() is no longer exported - use start_creating() or
> +similar.
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 40af78ddfb1b..307b4d0866b8 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -1730,8 +1730,8 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_dcache(const struct qstr *name,
>   * Will return -ENOENT if name isn't found and LOOKUP_CREATE wasn't passed.
>   * Will return -EEXIST if name is found and LOOKUP_EXCL was passed.
>   */
> -struct dentry *lookup_one_qstr_excl(const struct qstr *name,
> -				    struct dentry *base, unsigned int flags)
> +static struct dentry *lookup_one_qstr_excl(const struct qstr *name,
> +					   struct dentry *base, unsigned int flags)
>  {
>  	struct dentry *dentry;
>  	struct dentry *old;
> @@ -1768,7 +1768,6 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_qstr_excl(const struct qstr *name,
>  	}
>  	return dentry;
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_one_qstr_excl);
>  
>  /**
>   * lookup_fast - do fast lockless (but racy) lookup of a dentry
> diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
> index 58600cf234bc..c7a7288cdd25 100644
> --- a/include/linux/namei.h
> +++ b/include/linux/namei.h
> @@ -54,9 +54,6 @@ extern int path_pts(struct path *path);
>  
>  extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *);
>  
> -struct dentry *lookup_one_qstr_excl(const struct qstr *name,
> -				    struct dentry *base,
> -				    unsigned int flags);
>  extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *);
>  struct dentry *kern_path_parent(const char *name, struct path *parent);
>  

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>