add a string-to-qstr constructor

Quite a few places want to build a struct qstr by given string;
it would be convenient to have a primitive doing that, rather
than open-coding it via QSTR_INIT().

The closest approximation was in bcachefs, but that expands to
initializer list - {.len = strlen(string), .name = string}.
It would be more useful to have it as compound literal -
(struct qstr){.len = strlen(string), .name = string}.

Unlike initializer list it's a valid expression.  What's more,
it's a valid lvalue - it's an equivalent of anonymous local
variable with such initializer, so the things like
	path->dentry = d_alloc_pseudo(mnt->mnt_sb, &QSTR(name));
are valid.  It can also be used as initializer, with identical
effect -
	struct qstr x = (struct qstr){.name = s, .len = strlen(s)};
is equivalent to
	struct qstr anon_variable = {.name = s, .len = strlen(s)};
	struct qstr x = anon_variable;
	// anon_variable is never used after that point
and any even remotely sane compiler will manage to collapse that
into
	struct qstr x = {.name = s, .len = strlen(s)};

What compound literals can't be used for is initialization of
global variables, but those are covered by QSTR_INIT().

This commit lifts definition(s) of QSTR() into linux/dcache.h,
converts it to compound literal (all bcachefs users are fine
with that) and converts assorted open-coded instances to using
that.

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

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/bcachefs/util.h b/fs/bcachefs/util.h
index fb02c1c36004..a27f4b84fe77 100644
--- a/fs/bcachefs/util.h
+++ b/fs/bcachefs/util.h
@@ -647,8 +647,6 @@ static inline int cmp_le32(__le32 l, __le32 r)
 
 #include <linux/uuid.h>
 
-#define QSTR(n) { { { .len = strlen(n) } }, .name = n }
-
 static inline bool qstr_eq(const struct qstr l, const struct qstr r)
 {
 	return l.len == r.len && !memcmp(l.name, r.name, l.len);