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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2008-02-07 00:15:52 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-07 08:42:29 -0800
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iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete
Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an inode bad). Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem. iget_locked() should be used instead. A new function is added in an earlier patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it and release it should the get routine fail. Mark iget() and read_inode() as being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation. Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function becomes an internal iget function, for example the following: void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode) { ... } would be changed into something like: struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino) { struct inode *inode; int ret; inode = iget_locked(sb, ino); if (!inode) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW)) return inode; ... unlock_new_inode(inode); return inode; error: iget_failed(inode); return ERR_PTR(ret); } and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example: ret = -EINVAL; inode = iget(sb, ino); if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode)) goto error; becomes: inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { ret = PTR_ERR(inode); goto error; } Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called. The error returned by thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 276ffd6b6fdd..53245ffcf93d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -928,8 +928,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ilookup);
* @set: callback used to initialize a new struct inode
* @data: opaque data pointer to pass to @test and @set
*
- * This is iget() without the read_inode() portion of get_new_inode().
- *
* iget5_locked() uses ifind() to search for the inode specified by @hashval
* and @data in the inode cache and if present it is returned with an increased
* reference count. This is a generalized version of iget_locked() for file
@@ -966,8 +964,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iget5_locked);
* @sb: super block of file system
* @ino: inode number to get
*
- * This is iget() without the read_inode() portion of get_new_inode_fast().
- *
* iget_locked() uses ifind_fast() to search for the inode specified by @ino in
* the inode cache and if present it is returned with an increased reference
* count. This is for file systems where the inode number is sufficient for