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Message-Id: <1348167330-30288-2-git-send-email-miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:55:18 +0200
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To: viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, apw@...onical.com,
nbd@...nwrt.org, neilb@...e.de, jordipujolp@...il.com,
ezk@....cs.sunysb.edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
sedat.dilek@...glemail.com, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp, mszeredi@...e.cz
Subject: [PATCH 01/13] vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Add a new inode operation i_op->dentry_open(). This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
---
Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 ++
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 7 +++++++
fs/namei.c | 9 ++++++---
fs/open.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
5 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index e540a24..019fc72 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ prototypes:
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
locking rules:
all may block
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ removexattr: yes
fiemap: no
update_time: no
atomic_open: yes
+dentry_open: no
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 2ee133e..ea1379c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
};
Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -692,6 +693,12 @@ struct address_space_operations {
but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file
are and uses those addresses directly.
+ dentry_open: this is an alternative to f_op->open(), the difference is that
+ this method may open a file not necessarily originating from the same
+ filesystem as the one i_op->open() was called on. It may be
+ useful for stacking filesystems which want to allow native I/O directly
+ on underlying files.
+
invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage
will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index dd1ed1b..829404a 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2822,9 +2822,12 @@ finish_open_created:
error = may_open(&nd->path, acc_mode, open_flag);
if (error)
goto out;
- file->f_path.mnt = nd->path.mnt;
- error = finish_open(file, nd->path.dentry, NULL, opened);
- if (error) {
+
+ BUG_ON(*opened & FILE_OPENED); /* once it's opened, it's opened */
+ error = vfs_open(&nd->path, file, current_cred());
+ if (!error) {
+ *opened |= FILE_OPENED;
+ } else {
if (error == -EOPENSTALE)
goto stale_open;
goto out;
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index e1f2cdb..d0f0ec7 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -787,8 +787,7 @@ struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
return ERR_PTR(error);
f->f_flags = flags;
- f->f_path = *path;
- error = do_dentry_open(f, NULL, cred);
+ error = vfs_open(path, f, cred);
if (!error) {
error = open_check_o_direct(f);
if (error) {
@@ -803,6 +802,26 @@ struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_open);
+/**
+ * vfs_open - open the file at the given path
+ * @path: path to open
+ * @filp: newly allocated file with f_flag initialized
+ * @cred: credentials to use
+ */
+int vfs_open(const struct path *path, struct file *filp,
+ const struct cred *cred)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
+
+ if (inode->i_op->dentry_open)
+ return inode->i_op->dentry_open(path->dentry, filp, cred);
+ else {
+ filp->f_path = *path;
+ return do_dentry_open(filp, NULL, cred);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_open);
+
static void __put_unused_fd(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
{
struct fdtable *fdt = files_fdtable(files);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index aa11047..e372113 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1835,6 +1835,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
+ int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
} ____cacheline_aligned;
struct seq_file;
@@ -2199,6 +2200,7 @@ extern long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t);
extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, int);
+extern int vfs_open(const struct path *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
extern struct file * dentry_open(const struct path *, int, const struct cred *);
extern int filp_close(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
extern char * getname(const char __user *);
--
1.7.7
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