vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()

As Neil points out:

"I would be in favour of dropping the "dir" arg because it is always
d_inode(dentry->d_parent) which is stable."

...and...

"Also *every* caller of vfs_create() passes ".excl = true".  So maybe we
don't need that arg at all."

Drop both arguments from vfs_create() and fix up the callers.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-9-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

8 files changed, 11 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index 88631291b325..d109e3763a88 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ ecryptfs_do_create(struct inode *directory_inode,
 
 	rc = lock_parent(ecryptfs_dentry, &lower_dentry, &lower_dir);
 	if (!rc)
-		rc = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, lower_dir,
-				lower_dentry, mode, true);
+		rc = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, lower_dentry, mode);
 	if (rc) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failure to create dentry in lower fs; "
 		       "rc = [%d]\n", __func__, rc);
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f439429bdfa2..9586c6aba6ea 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3461,10 +3461,8 @@ static inline umode_t vfs_prepare_mode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 /**
  * vfs_create - create new file
  * @idmap:	idmap of the mount the inode was found from
- * @dir:	inode of the parent directory
  * @dentry:	dentry of the child file
  * @mode:	mode of the child file
- * @want_excl:	whether the file must not yet exist
  *
  * Create a new file.
  *
@@ -3474,9 +3472,9 @@ static inline umode_t vfs_prepare_mode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
  * On non-idmapped mounts or if permission checking is to be performed on the
  * raw inode simply pass @nop_mnt_idmap.
  */
-int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
-	       struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, bool want_excl)
+int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
 {
+	struct inode *dir = d_inode(dentry->d_parent);
 	int error;
 
 	error = may_create(idmap, dir, dentry);
@@ -3490,7 +3488,7 @@ int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
 	error = security_inode_create(dir, dentry, mode);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
-	error = dir->i_op->create(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, want_excl);
+	error = dir->i_op->create(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, true);
 	if (!error)
 		fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
 	return error;
@@ -4383,8 +4381,7 @@ retry:
 	idmap = mnt_idmap(path.mnt);
 	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
 		case 0: case S_IFREG:
-			error = vfs_create(idmap, path.dentry->d_inode,
-					   dentry, mode, true);
+			error = vfs_create(idmap, dentry, mode);
 			if (!error)
 				security_path_post_mknod(idmap, dentry);
 			break;
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
index b6d03e1ef5f7..30ea7ffa2aff 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ nfsd3_create_file(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	status = fh_fill_pre_attrs(fhp);
 	if (status != nfs_ok)
 		goto out;
-	host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode, child, iap->ia_mode, true);
+	host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, child, iap->ia_mode);
 	if (host_err < 0) {
 		status = nfserrno(host_err);
 		goto out;
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index c400ea94ff2e..464fd54675f3 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1552,8 +1552,7 @@ nfsd_create_locked(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	err = 0;
 	switch (type) {
 	case S_IFREG:
-		host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, dirp, dchild,
-				      iap->ia_mode, true);
+		host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, dchild, iap->ia_mode);
 		if (!host_err)
 			nfsd_check_ignore_resizing(iap);
 		break;
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index fdaa6f08f6f4..e440f58e3ce8 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1171,9 +1171,7 @@ struct file *dentry_create(const struct path *path, int flags, umode_t mode,
 	if (IS_ERR(f))
 		return f;
 
-	error = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path->mnt),
-			   d_inode(path->dentry->d_parent),
-			   path->dentry, mode, true);
+	error = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path->mnt), path->dentry, mode);
 	if (!error)
 		error = vfs_open(path, f);
 
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index d215d7349489..2bdc434941eb 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static inline int ovl_do_create(struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 				struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 				umode_t mode)
 {
-	int err = vfs_create(ovl_upper_mnt_idmap(ofs), dir, dentry, mode, true);
+	int err = vfs_create(ovl_upper_mnt_idmap(ofs), dentry, mode);
 
 	pr_debug("create(%pd2, 0%o) = %i\n", dentry, mode, err);
 	return err;
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
index c5f0f3170d58..83ece2de4b23 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
@@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ int ksmbd_vfs_create(struct ksmbd_work *work, const char *name, umode_t mode)
 	}
 
 	mode |= S_IFREG;
-	err = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path.mnt), d_inode(path.dentry),
-			 dentry, mode, true);
+	err = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path.mnt), dentry, mode);
 	if (!err) {
 		ksmbd_vfs_inherit_owner(work, d_inode(path.dentry),
 					d_inode(dentry));
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 12873214e1c7..21876ef1fec9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2111,8 +2111,7 @@ bool inode_owner_or_capable(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 /*
  * VFS helper functions..
  */
-int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,
-	       struct dentry *, umode_t, bool);
+int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
 struct dentry *vfs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,
 			 struct dentry *, umode_t, struct delegated_inode *);
 int vfs_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *, struct dentry *,