+/**
+ * kernfs_create_link - create a symlink
+ * @parent: directory to create the symlink in
+ * @name: name of the symlink
+ * @target: target node for the symlink to point to
+ *
+ * Returns the created node on success, ERR_PTR() value on error.
+ */
+struct sysfs_dirent *kernfs_create_link(struct sysfs_dirent *parent,
+ const char *name,
+ struct sysfs_dirent *target)
+{
+ struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
+ struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;
+ int error;
+
+ sd = sysfs_new_dirent(name, S_IFLNK|S_IRWXUGO, SYSFS_KOBJ_LINK);
+ if (!sd)
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+ if (parent->s_flags & SYSFS_FLAG_NS)
+ sd->s_ns = target->s_ns;
+ sd->s_symlink.target_sd = target;
+ sysfs_get(target); /* ref owned by symlink */
+
+ sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt);
+ error = __sysfs_add_one(&acxt, sd, parent);
+ sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt);
+
+ if (!error)
+ return sd;
+
+ sysfs_put(sd);
+ return ERR_PTR(error);
+}
+
+