take anon inode allocation to libfs.c

commit 6987843ff7e836ea65b554905aec34d2fad05c94 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 3a3a9b53bf5..193e0c29fb9 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -993,3 +993,46 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_open);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_release);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_read);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_write);
+
+/*
+ * nop .set_page_dirty method so that people can use .page_mkwrite on
+ * anon inodes.
+ */
+static int anon_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+{
+	return 0;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A single inode exists for all anon_inode files. Contrary to pipes,
+ * anon_inode inodes have no associated per-instance data, so we need
+ * only allocate one of them.
+ */
+struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s)
+{
+	static const struct address_space_operations anon_aops = {
+		.set_page_dirty = anon_set_page_dirty,
+	};
+	struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(s);
+
+	if (!inode)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
+	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &anon_aops;
+
+	/*
+	 * Mark the inode dirty from the very beginning,
+	 * that way it will never be moved to the dirty
+	 * list because mark_inode_dirty() will think
+	 * that it already _is_ on the dirty list.
+	 */
+	inode->i_state = I_DIRTY;
+	inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
+	inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
+	inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
+	inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
+	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+	return inode;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_anon_inode);