docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
get_link() is merged into pick_link(). i_op->follow_link is
replaced with i_op->get_link(). get_link() can return ERR_PTR(0)
which equals NULL.
Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-12-foxhlchen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
index 1102252..c150f07 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
@@ -1136,10 +1136,10 @@
A pair of special-case symlinks deserve a little further explanation.
Both result in a new ``struct path`` (with mount and dentry) being set
-up in the ``nameidata``, and result in ``get_link()`` returning ``NULL``.
+up in the ``nameidata``, and result in ``pick_link()`` returning ``NULL``.
The more obvious case is a symlink to "``/``". All symlinks starting
-with "``/``" are detected in ``get_link()`` which resets the ``nameidata``
+with "``/``" are detected in ``pick_link()`` which resets the ``nameidata``
to point to the effective filesystem root. If the symlink only
contains "``/``" then there is nothing more to do, no components at all,
so ``NULL`` is returned to indicate that the symlink can be released and
@@ -1156,12 +1156,11 @@
target file, not just the name of it. When you ``readlink`` these
objects you get a name that might refer to the same file - unless it
has been unlinked or mounted over. When ``walk_component()`` follows
-one of these, the ``->follow_link()`` method in "procfs" doesn't return
+one of these, the ``->get_link()`` method in "procfs" doesn't return
a string name, but instead calls ``nd_jump_link()`` which updates the
-``nameidata`` in place to point to that target. ``->follow_link()`` then
-returns ``NULL``. Again there is no final component and ``get_link()``
-reports this by leaving the ``last_type`` field of ``nameidata`` as
-``LAST_BIND``.
+``nameidata`` in place to point to that target. ``->get_link()`` then
+returns ``NULL``. Again there is no final component and ``pick_link()``
+returns ``NULL``.
Following the symlink in the final component
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