dentry name snapshots

commit 49d31c2f389acfe83417083e1208422b4091cd9e upstream.

take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[carnil: backport 4.9: adjust context]
[bwh: Backported to 3.16:
 - External names are not ref-counted, so copy them
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index 700129940c6e..c955b9edb2d5 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -105,16 +105,20 @@ int __fsnotify_parent(struct path *path, struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask)
 	if (unlikely(!fsnotify_inode_watches_children(p_inode)))
 		__fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags(p_inode);
 	else if (p_inode->i_fsnotify_mask & mask) {
+		struct name_snapshot name;
+
 		/* we are notifying a parent so come up with the new mask which
 		 * specifies these are events which came from a child. */
 		mask |= FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD;
 
+		take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, dentry);
 		if (path)
 			ret = fsnotify(p_inode, mask, path, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH,
-				       dentry->d_name.name, 0);
+				       name.name, 0);
 		else
 			ret = fsnotify(p_inode, mask, dentry->d_inode, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE,
-				       dentry->d_name.name, 0);
+				       name.name, 0);
+		release_dentry_name_snapshot(&name);
 	}
 
 	dput(parent);