From da53be12bbb4fabbe2e9f6f908de0cf478b5161d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:22:44 -0700 Subject: Don't pass inode to ->d_hash() and ->d_compare() Instances either don't look at it at all (the majority of cases) or only want it to find the superblock (which can be had as dentry->d_sb). A few cases that want more are actually safe with dentry->d_inode - the only precaution needed is the check that it hadn't been replaced with NULL by rmdir() or by overwriting rename(), which case should be simply treated as cache miss. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 4a35f6614a6..51ba44e3fc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -901,10 +901,8 @@ defined: struct dentry_operations { int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int); - int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, - struct qstr *); - int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, - const struct dentry *, const struct inode *, + int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, struct qstr *); + int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct dentry *, unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *); int (*d_delete)(const struct dentry *); void (*d_release)(struct dentry *); @@ -949,25 +947,24 @@ struct dentry_operations { d_hash: called when the VFS adds a dentry to the hash table. The first dentry passed to d_hash is the parent directory that the name is - to be hashed into. The inode is the dentry's inode. + to be hashed into. Same locking and synchronisation rules as d_compare regarding what is safe to dereference etc. d_compare: called to compare a dentry name with a given name. The first dentry is the parent of the dentry to be compared, the second is - the parent's inode, then the dentry and inode (may be NULL) of the - child dentry. len and name string are properties of the dentry to be - compared. qstr is the name to compare it with. + the child dentry. len and name string are properties of the dentry + to be compared. qstr is the name to compare it with. Must be constant and idempotent, and should not take locks if - possible, and should not or store into the dentry or inodes. - Should not dereference pointers outside the dentry or inodes without + possible, and should not or store into the dentry. + Should not dereference pointers outside the dentry without lots of care (eg. d_parent, d_inode, d_name should not be used). However, our vfsmount is pinned, and RCU held, so the dentries and inodes won't disappear, neither will our sb or filesystem module. - ->i_sb and ->d_sb may be used. + ->d_sb may be used. It is a tricky calling convention because it needs to be called under "rcu-walk", ie. without any locks or references on things. -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258 From 48bde8d3620f5f3c6ae9ff599eb404055ae51664 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:19:23 +0400 Subject: Document ->tmpfile() Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 51ba44e3fc4..aeff462c722 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -360,6 +360,8 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *); void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int); int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, + int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t); +} ____cacheline_aligned; struct file *, unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened); }; @@ -472,6 +474,9 @@ otherwise noted. component is negative or needs lookup. Cached positive dentries are still handled by f_op->open(). + tmpfile: called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to + atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given directory. + The Address Space Object ======================== -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258