fs: port ->getattr() to pass mnt_idmap

Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just

fs: port ->getattr() to pass mnt_idmap

Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>

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ext4: fix reading leftover inlined symlinks

Since commit 6493792d3299 ("ext4: convert symlink external data block
mapping to bdev"), create new symlink with inline_data is not supported,
but it miss

ext4: fix reading leftover inlined symlinks

Since commit 6493792d3299 ("ext4: convert symlink external data block
mapping to bdev"), create new symlink with inline_data is not supported,
but it missing to handle the leftover inlined symlinks, which could
cause below error message and fail to read symlink.

ls: cannot read symbolic link 'foo': Structure needs cleaning

EXT4-fs error (device sda): ext4_map_blocks:605: inode #12: block
2021161080: comm ls: lblock 0 mapped to illegal pblock 2021161080
(length 1)

Fix this regression by adding ext4_read_inline_link(), which read the
inline data directly and convert it through a kmalloced buffer.

Fixes: 6493792d3299 ("ext4: convert symlink external data block mapping to bdev")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Torge Matthies <openglfreak@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Torge Matthies <openglfreak@googlemail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220630090100.2769490-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: convert symlink external data block mapping to bdev

Symlink's external data block is one kind of metadata block, and now
that almost all ext4 metadata block's page cache (e.g. directory blocks

ext4: convert symlink external data block mapping to bdev

Symlink's external data block is one kind of metadata block, and now
that almost all ext4 metadata block's page cache (e.g. directory blocks,
quota blocks...) belongs to bdev backing inode except the symlink. It
is essentially worked in data=journal mode like other regular file's
data block because probably in order to make it simple for generic VFS
code handling symlinks or some other historical reasons, but the logic
of creating external data block in ext4_symlink() is complicated. and it
also make things confused if user do not want to let the filesystem
worked in data=journal mode. This patch convert the final exceptional
case and make things clean, move the mapping of the symlink's external
data block to bdev like any other metadata block does.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220424140936.1898920-3-yi.zhang@huawei.com

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ext4: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks

The stat() family of syscalls report the wrong size for encrypted
symlinks, which has caused breakage in several userspace programs.

Fix this by

ext4: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks

The stat() family of syscalls report the wrong size for encrypted
symlinks, which has caused breakage in several userspace programs.

Fix this by calling fscrypt_symlink_getattr() after ext4_getattr() for
encrypted symlinks. This function computes the correct size by reading
and decrypting the symlink target (if it's not already cached).

For more details, see the commit which added fscrypt_symlink_getattr().

Fixes: f348c252320b ("ext4 crypto: add symlink encryption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210702065350.209646-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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ext4: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks

commit 8c4bca10ceafc43b1ca0a9fab5fa27e13cbce99e upstream.

The stat() family of syscalls report the wrong size for encrypted
symlinks, which has c

ext4: report correct st_size for encrypted symlinks

commit 8c4bca10ceafc43b1ca0a9fab5fa27e13cbce99e upstream.

The stat() family of syscalls report the wrong size for encrypted
symlinks, which has caused breakage in several userspace programs.

Fix this by calling fscrypt_symlink_getattr() after ext4_getattr() for
encrypted symlinks. This function computes the correct size by reading
and decrypting the symlink target (if it's not already cached).

For more details, see the commit which added fscrypt_symlink_getattr().

Fixes: f348c252320b ("ext4 crypto: add symlink encryption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210702065350.209646-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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ext4: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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ext4: Add statx support

Return enhanced file attributes from the Ext4 filesystem. This includes
the following:

(1) The inode creation time (i_crtime) as stx_btime, setting STATX_BTIME.

(2) Cert

ext4: Add statx support

Return enhanced file attributes from the Ext4 filesystem. This includes
the following:

(1) The inode creation time (i_crtime) as stx_btime, setting STATX_BTIME.

(2) Certain FS_xxx_FL flags are mapped to stx_attribute flags.

This requires that all ext4 inodes have a getattr call, not just some of
them, so to this end, split the ext4_getattr() function and only call part
of it where appropriate.

Example output:

[root@andromeda ~]# touch foo
[root@andromeda ~]# chattr +ai foo
[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx foo
statx(foo) = 0
results=fff
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 08:12 Inode: 2101950 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: 0 Gid: 0
Access: 2016-02-11 17:08:29.031795451+0000
Modify: 2016-02-11 17:08:29.031795451+0000
Change: 2016-02-11 17:11:11.987790114+0000
Birth: 2016-02-11 17:08:29.031795451+0000
Attributes: 0000000000000030 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --ai----)

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments

If .readlink == NULL implies generic_readlink().

Generated by:

to_del="\.readlink.*=.*generic_readlink"
for i in `git grep -l $to_del`; do se

vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments

If .readlink == NULL implies generic_readlink().

Generated by:

to_del="\.readlink.*=.*generic_readlink"
for i in `git grep -l $to_del`; do sed -i "/$to_del"/d $i; done

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

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vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations

These inode operations are no longer used; remove them.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeni

vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations

These inode operations are no longer used; remove them.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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ext4: do not unnecessarily null-terminate encrypted symlink data

Null-terminating the fscrypt_symlink_data on read is unnecessary because
it is not string data --- it contains binary ciphertext.

Si

ext4: do not unnecessarily null-terminate encrypted symlink data

Null-terminating the fscrypt_symlink_data on read is unnecessary because
it is not string data --- it contains binary ciphertext.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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fscrypto: make filename crypto functions return 0 on success

Several filename crypto functions: fname_decrypt(),
fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(), and fscrypt_fname_usr_to_disk(), returned
the output len

fscrypto: make filename crypto functions return 0 on success

Several filename crypto functions: fname_decrypt(),
fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(), and fscrypt_fname_usr_to_disk(), returned
the output length on success or -errno on failure. However, the output
length was redundant with the value written to 'oname->len'. It is also
potentially error-prone to make callers have to check for '< 0' instead
of '!= 0'.

Therefore, make these functions return 0 instead of a length, and make
the callers who cared about the return value being a length use
'oname->len' instead. For consistency also make other callers check for
a nonzero result rather than a negative result.

This change also fixes the inconsistency of fname_encrypt() actually
already returning 0 on success, not a length like the other filename
crypto functions and as documented in its function comment.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>

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ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails

This bug was introduced in v4.8-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vg

ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails

This bug was introduced in v4.8-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

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ext4 crypto: migrate into vfs's crypto engine

This patch removes the most parts of internal crypto codes.
And then, it modifies and adds some ext4-specific crypt codes to use the generic
facility.

ext4 crypto: migrate into vfs's crypto engine

This patch removes the most parts of internal crypto codes.
And then, it modifies and adds some ext4-specific crypt codes to use the generic
facility.

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to impleme

mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

- <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

- <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;

- PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

- page_cache_get() -> get_page();

- page_cache_release() -> put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode

new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences
are:
* inode and dentry are passed separately
* might

replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode

new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences
are:
* inode and dentry are passed separately
* might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode;
the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry.
* when called that way it isn't allowed to block
and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called
in non-RCU mode.

It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances
converted. Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances
do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode. That'll change
in the next commits.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem

kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold
an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking
the system.

don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem

kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold
an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking
the system.

new helper (inode_nohighmem(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache
symlinks inodes; done for all in-tree cases. page_follow_link_light()
instrumented to yell about anything missed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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ext4: fix an endianness bug in ext4_encrypted_follow_link()

applying le32_to_cpu() to 16bit value is a bad idea...

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.or

ext4: fix an endianness bug in ext4_encrypted_follow_link()

applying le32_to_cpu() to 16bit value is a bad idea...

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4: call out CRC and corruption errors with specific error codes

Instead of overloading EIO for CRC errors and corrupt structures,
return the same error codes that XFS returns for the same issues.

ext4: call out CRC and corruption errors with specific error codes

Instead of overloading EIO for CRC errors and corrupt structures,
return the same error codes that XFS returns for the same issues.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4 crypto: use per-inode tfm structure

As suggested by Herbert Xu, we shouldn't allocate a new tfm each time
we read or write a page. Instead we can use a single tfm hanging off
the inode's crypt

ext4 crypto: use per-inode tfm structure

As suggested by Herbert Xu, we shouldn't allocate a new tfm each time
we read or write a page. Instead we can use a single tfm hanging off
the inode's crypt_info structure for all of our encryption needs for
that inode, since the tfm can be used by multiple crypto requests in
parallel.

Also use cmpxchg() to avoid races that could result in crypt_info
structure getting doubly allocated or doubly freed.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4 crypto: reorganize how we store keys in the inode

This is a pretty massive patch which does a number of different things:

1) The per-inode encryption information is now stored in an allocated

ext4 crypto: reorganize how we store keys in the inode

This is a pretty massive patch which does a number of different things:

1) The per-inode encryption information is now stored in an allocated
data structure, ext4_crypt_info, instead of directly in the node.
This reduces the size usage of an in-memory inode when it is not
using encryption.

2) We drop the ext4_fname_crypto_ctx entirely, and use the per-inode
encryption structure instead. This remove an unnecessary memory
allocation and free for the fname_crypto_ctx as well as allowing us
to reuse the ctfm in a directory for multiple lookups and file
creations.

3) We also cache the inode's policy information in the ext4_crypt_info
structure so we don't have to continually read it out of the
extended attributes.

4) We now keep the keyring key in the inode's encryption structure
instead of releasing it after we are done using it to derive the
per-inode key. This allows us to test to see if the key has been
revoked; if it has, we prevent the use of the derived key and free
it.

5) When an inode is released (or when the derived key is freed), we
will use memset_explicit() to zero out the derived key, so it's not
left hanging around in memory. This implies that when a user logs
out, it is important to first revoke the key, and then unlink it,
and then finally, to use "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" to
release any decrypted pages and dcache entries from the system
caches.

6) All this, and we also shrink the number of lines of code by around
100. :-)

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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ext4 crypto: don't allocate a page when encrypting/decrypting file names

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

don't pass nameidata to ->follow_link()

its only use is getting passed to nd_jump_link(), which can obtain
it from current->nameidata

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions

a) instead of storing the symlink body (via nd_set_link()) and returning
an opaque pointer later passed to ->put_link(), ->follow_link() _sto

new ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions

a) instead of storing the symlink body (via nd_set_link()) and returning
an opaque pointer later passed to ->put_link(), ->follow_link() _stores_
that opaque pointer (into void * passed by address by caller) and returns
the symlink body. Returning ERR_PTR() on error, NULL on jump (procfs magic
symlinks) and pointer to symlink body for normal symlinks. Stored pointer
is ignored in all cases except the last one.

Storing NULL for opaque pointer (or not storing it at all) means no call
of ->put_link().

b) the body used to be passed to ->put_link() implicitly (via nameidata).
Now only the opaque pointer is. In the cases when we used the symlink body
to free stuff, ->follow_link() now should store it as opaque pointer in addition
to returning it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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