libfs: simple_follow_link()

let "fast" symlinks store the pointer to the body into ->i_link and
use simple_follow_link for ->follow_link()

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fs/inode.c

@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
 	inode->i_pipe = NULL;
 	inode->i_bdev = NULL;
 	inode->i_cdev = NULL;
+	inode->i_link = NULL;
 	inode->i_rdev = 0;
 	inode->dirtied_when = 0;
 

fs/libfs.c

@@ -1093,3 +1093,16 @@ simple_nosetlease(struct file *filp, long arg, struct file_lock **flp,
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_nosetlease);
+
+void *simple_follow_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	nd_set_link(nd, d_inode(dentry)->i_link);
+	return NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_follow_link);
+
+const struct inode_operations simple_symlink_inode_operations = {
+	.follow_link = simple_follow_link,
+	.readlink = generic_readlink
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_symlink_inode_operations);

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -656,6 +656,7 @@ struct inode {
 		struct pipe_inode_info	*i_pipe;
 		struct block_device	*i_bdev;
 		struct cdev		*i_cdev;
+		char			*i_link;
 	};
 
 	__u32			i_generation;
@@ -2721,6 +2722,8 @@ void __inode_sub_bytes(struct inode *inode, loff_t bytes);
 void inode_sub_bytes(struct inode *inode, loff_t bytes);
 loff_t inode_get_bytes(struct inode *inode);
 void inode_set_bytes(struct inode *inode, loff_t bytes);
+void *simple_follow_link(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
+extern const struct inode_operations simple_symlink_inode_operations;
 
 extern int iterate_dir(struct file *, struct dir_context *);