linux-ext4 - [PATCH v7 02/28] fsnotify: pass dentry instead of inode data

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Date:   Thu, 14 Oct 2021 18:36:20 -0300
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     jack@...e.com, amir73il@...il.com
Cc:     djwong@...nel.org, tytso@....edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
        khazhy@...gle.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        repnop@...gle.com, kernel@...labora.com,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 02/28] fsnotify: pass dentry instead of inode data

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>

Define a new data type to pass for event - FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY.
Use it to pass the dentry instead of it's ->d_inode where available.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
---
 include/linux/fsnotify.h         |  5 ++---
 include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
index d1144d7c3536..df0fa4687a18 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ static inline int fsnotify_name(__u32 mask, const void *data, int data_type,
 static inline void fsnotify_dirent(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 				   __u32 mask)
 {
-	fsnotify_name(mask, d_inode(dentry), FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE,
-		      dir, &dentry->d_name, 0);
+	fsnotify_name(mask, dentry, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY, dir, &dentry->d_name, 0);
 }
 
 static inline void fsnotify_inode(struct inode *inode, __u32 mask)
@@ -87,7 +86,7 @@ static inline int fsnotify_parent(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask,
  */
 static inline void fsnotify_dentry(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask)
 {
-	fsnotify_parent(dentry, mask, d_inode(dentry), FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE);
+	fsnotify_parent(dentry, mask, dentry, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY);
 }
 
 static inline int fsnotify_file(struct file *file, __u32 mask)
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 1ce66748a2d2..a2db821e8a8f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ enum fsnotify_data_type {
 	FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE,
 	FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH,
 	FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE,
+	FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY,
 };
 
 static inline struct inode *fsnotify_data_inode(const void *data, int data_type)
@@ -255,6 +256,8 @@ static inline struct inode *fsnotify_data_inode(const void *data, int data_type)
 	switch (data_type) {
 	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE:
 		return (struct inode *)data;
+	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY:
+		return d_inode(data);
 	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH:
 		return d_inode(((const struct path *)data)->dentry);
 	default:
@@ -262,6 +265,19 @@ static inline struct inode *fsnotify_data_inode(const void *data, int data_type)
 	}
 }
 
+static inline struct dentry *fsnotify_data_dentry(const void *data, int data_type)
+{
+	switch (data_type) {
+	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_DENTRY:
+		/* Non const is needed for dget() */
+		return (struct dentry *)data;
+	case FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH:
+		return ((const struct path *)data)->dentry;
+	default:
+		return NULL;
+	}
+}
+
 static inline const struct path *fsnotify_data_path(const void *data,
 						    int data_type)
 {
-- 
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