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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2021-11-18 08:58:08 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2022-01-07 13:41:32 +0000
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vfs, cachefiles: Mark a backing file in use with an inode flag
Use an inode flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, to mark that a backing file is in use by the kernel to prevent cachefiles or other kernel services from interfering with that file. Alter rmdir to reject attempts to remove a directory marked with this flag. This is used by cachefiles to prevent cachefilesd from removing them. Using S_SWAPFILE instead isn't really viable as that has other effects in the I/O paths. Changes ======= ver #3: - Check for the object pointer being NULL in the tracepoints rather than the caller. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819630256.215744.4815885535039369574.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906931596.143852.8642051223094013028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967141000.1823006.12920680657559677789.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021541207.640689.564689725898537127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
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--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2249,6 +2249,7 @@ struct super_operations {
#define S_ENCRYPTED (1 << 14) /* Encrypted file (using fs/crypto/) */
#define S_CASEFOLD (1 << 15) /* Casefolded file */
#define S_VERITY (1 << 16) /* Verity file (using fs/verity/) */
+#define S_KERNEL_FILE (1 << 17) /* File is in use by the kernel (eg. fs/cachefiles) */
/*
* Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system