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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-12-26 00:57:40 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-12-31 18:07:43 -0500
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kill ->dir_notify()
Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify(). The only instance (cifs) has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er, deficiencies someday be dealt with. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt3
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 23d2f4460deb..ccec55394380 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -394,7 +394,6 @@ prototypes:
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long,
unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
- int (*dir_notify)(struct file *, unsigned long);
};
locking rules:
@@ -424,7 +423,6 @@ sendfile: no
sendpage: no
get_unmapped_area: no
check_flags: no
-dir_notify: no
->llseek() locking has moved from llseek to the individual llseek
implementations. If your fs is not using generic_file_llseek, you
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 041cb771d505..ef19afa186a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -733,7 +733,6 @@ struct file_operations {
ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
int (*check_flags)(int);
- int (*dir_notify)(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg);
int (*flock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
ssize_t (*splice_write)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct file *, size_t, unsigned int);
ssize_t (*splice_read)(struct file *, struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
@@ -800,8 +799,6 @@ otherwise noted.
check_flags: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_SETFL command
- dir_notify: called by the fcntl(2) system call for F_NOTIFY command
-
flock: called by the flock(2) system call
splice_write: called by the VFS to splice data from a pipe to a file. This