linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 2/7] libfs: Define a minimum directory offset

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 <170786025248.11135.14453586596030949713.stgit@91.116.238.104.host.secureserver.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:37:32 -0500
From: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
To: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org, jack@...e.cz,
 hughd@...gle.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Liam.Howlett@...cle.com,
 oliver.sang@...el.com, feng.tang@...el.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 maple-tree@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, lkp@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH RFC 2/7] libfs: Define a minimum directory offset

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>

This value is used in several places, so make it a symbolic
constant.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
---
 fs/libfs.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index bfbe1a8c5d2d..a38af72f4719 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ const struct inode_operations simple_dir_inode_operations = {
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(simple_dir_inode_operations);
 
+/* 0 is '.', 1 is '..', so always start with offset 2 or more */
+enum {
+	DIR_OFFSET_MIN	= 2,
+};
+
 static void offset_set(struct dentry *dentry, u32 offset)
 {
 	dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)((uintptr_t)(offset));
@@ -261,9 +266,7 @@ void simple_offset_init(struct offset_ctx *octx)
 {
 	xa_init_flags(&octx->xa, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC1);
 	lockdep_set_class(&octx->xa.xa_lock, &simple_offset_xa_lock);
-
-	/* 0 is '.', 1 is '..', so always start with offset 2 */
-	octx->next_offset = 2;
+	octx->next_offset = DIR_OFFSET_MIN;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -276,7 +279,7 @@ void simple_offset_init(struct offset_ctx *octx)
  */
 int simple_offset_add(struct offset_ctx *octx, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	static const struct xa_limit limit = XA_LIMIT(2, U32_MAX);
+	static const struct xa_limit limit = XA_LIMIT(DIR_OFFSET_MIN, U32_MAX);
 	u32 offset;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -481,7 +484,7 @@ static int offset_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 		return 0;
 
 	/* In this case, ->private_data is protected by f_pos_lock */
-	if (ctx->pos == 2)
+	if (ctx->pos == DIR_OFFSET_MIN)
 		file->private_data = NULL;
 	else if (file->private_data == ERR_PTR(-ENOENT))
 		return 0;