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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-07 10:01:14 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-07 10:01:14 -0400
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Merge branch 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted cleanups and fixes. In the "trivial API change" department - ->d_compare() losing 'parent' argument" * 'for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: cachefiles: Fix race between inactivating and culling a cache object 9p: use clone_fid() 9p: fix braino introduced in "9p: new helper - v9fs_parent_fid()" vfs: make dentry_needs_remove_privs() internal vfs: remove file_needs_remove_privs() vfs: fix deadlock in file_remove_privs() on overlayfs get rid of 'parent' argument of ->d_compare() cifs, msdos, vfat, hfs+: don't bother with parent in ->d_compare() affs ->d_compare(): don't bother with ->d_inode fold _d_rehash() and __d_rehash() together fold dentry_rcuwalk_invalidate() into its only remaining caller
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt2
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 1b3c39a7de62..d30fb2cb5066 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ prototypes:
int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, struct qstr *);
- int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct dentry *,
+ int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *,
unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *);
int (*d_delete)(struct dentry *);
int (*d_init)(struct dentry *);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index a5fb89cac615..b1bd05ea66b2 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -585,3 +585,10 @@ in your dentry operations instead.
in the instances. Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be
called before we attach dentry to inode and !@#!@##!@$!$#!@#$!@$!@$ smack
->d_instantiate() uses not just ->getxattr() but ->setxattr() as well.
+--
+[mandatory]
+ ->d_compare() doesn't get parent as a separate argument anymore. If you
+ used it for finding the struct super_block involved, dentry->d_sb will
+ work just as well; if it's something more complicated, use dentry->d_parent.
+ Just be careful not to assume that fetching it more than once will yield
+ the same value - in RCU mode it could change under you.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 8a196851f01d..9ace359d6cc5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -931,7 +931,7 @@ struct dentry_operations {
int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, struct qstr *);
- int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct dentry *,
+ int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *,
unsigned int, const char *, const struct qstr *);
int (*d_delete)(const struct dentry *);
int (*d_init)(struct dentry *);