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Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:56:11 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	hch@...radead.org, drepper@...il.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	adilger@....com, dhowells@...hat.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH] vfs: new open(2) flag to open filesystem node

This patch adds a new open flag, O_NODE.  This flag means: open just
the filesystem node instead of the object referenced by the node.

Opening a file will not call the driver's ->open() method and will not
have any side effect other than referencing the dentry/vfsmount from
the struct file pointer.

Currently O_NODE can only be used together with O_NOACCESS (value 3),
meaning that read(2) and write(2) will return EBADF and no permission
is necessary to open the file.  This is logical for device nodes and
fifos.  For directories we could allow O_RDONLY, and for regular files
any access mode, but this is not done yet.

O_NODE used together with O_NOFOLLOW will open a symlink node itself
instead of returning ELOOP.  O_NOFOLLOW will not prevent following
mountpoints if used together with O_NODE.  In theory we could allow
O_RDONLY for symlinks too and return the contents of the link on
read(2).

Filesystems which want to install special file operations for O_NODE
opens (e.g. ioctl) may set S_OPEN_NODE flag in the inode.  This will
cause dentry_open() to call inode->i_fop->open, and the filesystem is
responsible for handling the O_NODE flag and installing the right
filesystem operations in file->f_op.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
---
 fs/file_table.c             |    6 +++-
 fs/locks.c                  |    3 ++
 fs/namei.c                  |   54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 fs/open.c                   |   12 ++++++++-
 include/asm-generic/fcntl.h |    4 +++
 include/linux/fs.h          |    1 
 6 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/locks.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/locks.c	2009-06-29 13:47:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/locks.c	2009-06-29 13:48:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -1183,6 +1183,9 @@ int __break_lease(struct inode *inode, u
 	unsigned long break_time;
 	int i_have_this_lease = 0;
 
+	if (!(mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)))
+		return 0;
+
 	new_fl = lease_alloc(NULL, mode & FMODE_WRITE ? F_WRLCK : F_RDLCK);
 
 	lock_kernel();
Index: linux-2.6/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/namei.c	2009-06-29 13:48:09.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/namei.c	2009-06-29 13:48:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -1160,7 +1160,9 @@ static int path_lookup_open(int dfd, con
 	nd->intent.open.file = filp;
 	nd->intent.open.flags = open_flags;
 	nd->intent.open.create_mode = 0;
-	err = do_path_lookup(dfd, name, lookup_flags|LOOKUP_OPEN, nd);
+	if (!(open_flags & O_NODE))
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_OPEN;
+	err = do_path_lookup(dfd, name, lookup_flags, nd);
 	if (IS_ERR(nd->intent.open.file)) {
 		if (err == 0) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(nd->intent.open.file);
@@ -1511,22 +1513,27 @@ int may_open(struct path *path, int acc_
 	if (!inode)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
-	switch (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
-	case S_IFLNK:
-		return -ELOOP;
-	case S_IFDIR:
-		if (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE)
-			return -EISDIR;
-		break;
-	case S_IFBLK:
-	case S_IFCHR:
-		if (path->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV)
+	if ((flag & O_NODE)) {
+		if (acc_mode & (MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE))
 			return -EACCES;
-		/*FALLTHRU*/
-	case S_IFIFO:
-	case S_IFSOCK:
-		flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
-		break;
+	} else {
+		switch (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
+		case S_IFLNK:
+			return -ELOOP;
+		case S_IFDIR:
+			if (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE)
+				return -EISDIR;
+			break;
+		case S_IFBLK:
+		case S_IFCHR:
+			if (path->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV)
+				return -EACCES;
+			/*FALLTHRU*/
+		case S_IFIFO:
+		case S_IFSOCK:
+			flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
+			break;
+		}
 	}
 
 	error = inode_permission(inode, acc_mode);
@@ -1629,14 +1636,16 @@ out_unlock:
  *	11 - read-write
  * for the internal routines (ie open_namei()/follow_link() etc)
  * This is more logical, and also allows the 00 "no perm needed"
- * to be used for symlinks (where the permissions are checked
- * later).
+ * to be used for opening a symlink, pipe, socket or device with
+ * O_NODE.
  *
 */
 static inline int open_to_namei_flags(int flag)
 {
 	if ((flag+1) & O_ACCMODE)
 		flag++;
+	else if (flag & O_NODE)
+		flag &= ~O_ACCMODE;
 	return flag;
 }
 
@@ -1724,7 +1733,9 @@ struct file *do_filp_open(int dfd, const
 	nd.intent.open.create_mode = mode;
 	dir = nd.path.dentry;
 	nd.flags &= ~LOOKUP_PARENT;
-	nd.flags |= LOOKUP_CREATE | LOOKUP_OPEN;
+	nd.flags |= LOOKUP_CREATE;
+	if (!(open_flag & O_NODE))
+		nd.flags |= LOOKUP_OPEN;
 	if (flag & O_EXCL)
 		nd.flags |= LOOKUP_EXCL;
 	mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
@@ -1779,7 +1790,7 @@ do_last:
 
 	if (__follow_mount(&path)) {
 		error = -ELOOP;
-		if (flag & O_NOFOLLOW)
+		if ((flag & O_NOFOLLOW) & !(flag & O_NODE))
 			goto exit_dput;
 	}
 
@@ -1790,7 +1801,8 @@ do_last:
 		if (!(flag & O_NOFOLLOW))
 			goto do_link;
 		error = -ELOOP;
-		goto exit_dput;
+		if (!(flag & O_NODE))
+			goto exit_dput;
 	}
 
 	path_to_nameidata(&path, &nd);
Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h	2009-06-29 13:47:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h	2009-06-29 13:48:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #define O_RDONLY	00000000
 #define O_WRONLY	00000001
 #define O_RDWR		00000002
+#define O_NOACCESS	00000003
 #ifndef O_CREAT
 #define O_CREAT		00000100	/* not fcntl */
 #endif
@@ -51,6 +52,9 @@
 #ifndef O_CLOEXEC
 #define O_CLOEXEC	02000000	/* set close_on_exec */
 #endif
+#ifndef O_NODE
+#define O_NODE		04000000	/* open filesystem node, not device */
+#endif
 #ifndef O_NDELAY
 #define O_NDELAY	O_NONBLOCK
 #endif
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2009-06-29 13:47:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h	2009-06-29 13:48:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define S_NOCMTIME	128	/* Do not update file c/mtime */
 #define S_SWAPFILE	256	/* Do not truncate: swapon got its bmaps */
 #define S_PRIVATE	512	/* Inode is fs-internal */
+#define S_OPEN_NODE	1024	/* Fs is prepared for O_NODE opens */
 
 /*
  * Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system
Index: linux-2.6/fs/open.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/open.c	2009-06-29 13:47:41.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/open.c	2009-06-29 13:48:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -803,12 +803,17 @@ static inline int __get_file_write_acces
 	return error;
 }
 
+static const struct file_operations default_node_fops = {
+	.llseek = no_llseek,
+};
+
 static struct file *__dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
 					int flags, struct file *f,
 					int (*open)(struct inode *, struct file *),
 					const struct cred *cred)
 {
 	struct inode *inode;
+	const struct file_operations *fops;
 	int error;
 
 	f->f_flags = flags;
@@ -827,7 +832,12 @@ static struct file *__dentry_open(struct
 	f->f_path.dentry = dentry;
 	f->f_path.mnt = mnt;
 	f->f_pos = 0;
-	f->f_op = fops_get(inode->i_fop);
+
+	fops = inode->i_fop;
+	if ((flags & O_NODE) && !(inode->i_flags & S_OPEN_NODE))
+		fops = &default_node_fops;
+	f->f_op = fops_get(fops);
+
 	file_move(f, &inode->i_sb->s_files);
 
 	error = security_dentry_open(f, cred);
Index: linux-2.6/fs/file_table.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/file_table.c	2009-06-29 13:47:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/file_table.c	2009-06-29 13:48:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -281,8 +281,10 @@ void __fput(struct file *file)
 		file->f_op->release(inode, file);
 	security_file_free(file);
 	ima_file_free(file);
-	if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL))
-		cdev_put(inode->i_cdev);
+	if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL)) {
+		if (!(file->f_flags & O_NODE))
+			cdev_put(inode->i_cdev);
+	}
 	fops_put(file->f_op);
 	put_pid(file->f_owner.pid);
 	file_kill(file);
--
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