inode numbering: change libfs sb creation routines to avoid collisions with their root inodes

This patch makes it so that simple_fill_super and get_sb_pseudo assign their
root inodes to be number 1.  It also fixes up a couple of callers of
simple_fill_super that were passing in files arrays that had an index at
number 1, and adds a warning for any caller that sends in such an array.

It would have been nice to have made it so that it wasn't possible to make
such a collision, but some callers need to be able to control what inode
number their entries get, so I think this is the best that can be done.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index d93842d3c0a0..1247ee90253a 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ int get_sb_pseudo(struct file_system_type *fs_type, char *name,
 	root = new_inode(s);
 	if (!root)
 		goto Enomem;
+	/*
+	 * since this is the first inode, make it number 1. New inodes created
+	 * after this must take care not to collide with it (by passing
+	 * max_reserved of 1 to iunique).
+	 */
+	root->i_ino = 1;
 	root->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
 	root->i_uid = root->i_gid = 0;
 	root->i_atime = root->i_mtime = root->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
@@ -360,6 +366,11 @@ int simple_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * the inodes created here are not hashed. If you use iunique to generate
+ * unique inode values later for this filesystem, then you must take care
+ * to pass it an appropriate max_reserved value to avoid collisions.
+ */
 int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, int magic, struct tree_descr *files)
 {
 	struct inode *inode;
@@ -376,6 +387,11 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, int magic, struct tree_descr *files
 	inode = new_inode(s);
 	if (!inode)
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	/*
+	 * because the root inode is 1, the files array must not contain an
+	 * entry at index 1
+	 */
+	inode->i_ino = 1;
 	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755;
 	inode->i_uid = inode->i_gid = 0;
 	inode->i_blocks = 0;
@@ -391,6 +407,13 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, int magic, struct tree_descr *files
 	for (i = 0; !files->name || files->name[0]; i++, files++) {
 		if (!files->name)
 			continue;
+
+		/* warn if it tries to conflict with the root inode */
+		if (unlikely(i == 1))
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s passed in a files array"
+				"with an index of 1!\n", __func__,
+				s->s_type->name);
+
 		dentry = d_alloc_name(root, files->name);
 		if (!dentry)
 			goto out;