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Al Viro
3c0a616368 unobfuscate follow_up() a bit
really convoluted test in there has grown up during struct mount
introduction; what it checks is that we'd reached the root of
mount tree.
2012-07-23 00:00:45 +04:00
Eric Sandeen
de9b942202 ext3: pass custom EOF to generic_file_llseek_size()
Use the new custom EOF argument to generic_file_llseek_size so
that SEEK_END will go to the max hash value for htree dirs
in ext3 rather than to i_size_read()

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-23 00:00:30 +04:00
Eric Sandeen
ec7268ce21 ext4: use core vfs llseek code for dir seeks
Use the new functionality in generic_file_llseek_size() to
accept a custom EOF position, and un-cut-and-paste all the
vfs llseek code from ext4.

Also fix up comments on ext4_llseek() to reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redaht.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-23 00:00:28 +04:00
Eric Sandeen
e8b96eb503 vfs: allow custom EOF in generic_file_llseek code
For ext3/4 htree directories, using the vfs llseek function with
SEEK_END goes to i_size like for any other file, but in reality
we want the maximum possible hash value.  Recent changes
in ext4 have cut & pasted generic_file_llseek() back into fs/ext4/dir.c,
but replicating this core code seems like a bad idea, especially
since the copy has already diverged from the vfs.

This patch updates generic_file_llseek_size to accept
both a custom maximum offset, and a custom EOF position.  With this
in place, ext4_dir_llseek can pass in the appropriate maximum hash
position for both maxsize and eof, and get what it wants.

As far as I know, this does not fix any bugs - nfs in the kernel
doesn't use SEEK_END, and I don't know of any user who does.  But
some ext4 folks seem keen on doing the right thing here, and I can't
really argue.

(Patch also fixes up some comments slightly)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-23 00:00:15 +04:00
Jan Kara
4ea425b63a vfs: Avoid unnecessary WB_SYNC_NONE writeback during sys_sync and reorder sync passes
wakeup_flusher_threads(0) will queue work doing complete writeback for each
flusher thread. Thus there is not much point in submitting another work doing
full inode WB_SYNC_NONE writeback by writeback_inodes_sb().

After this change it does not make sense to call nonblocking ->sync_fs and
block device flush before calling sync_inodes_sb() because
wakeup_flusher_threads() is completely asynchronous and thus these functions
would be called in parallel with inode writeback running which will effectively
void any work they do. So we move sync_inodes_sb() call before these two
functions.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:59:01 +04:00
Jan Kara
d0e91b13eb vfs: Remove unnecessary flushing of block devices
It is not necessary to write block devices twice. The reason why we first did
flush and then proper sync is that
  for_each_bdev() {
    write_bdev()
    wait_for_completion()
  }
is much slower than
  for_each_bdev()
    write_bdev()
  for_each_bdev()
    wait_for_completion()
when there is bigger amount of data. But as is seen in the above, there's no real
need to scan pages and submit them twice. We just need to separate the submission
and waiting part. This patch does that.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:53 +04:00
Jan Kara
a8c7176b6d vfs: Make sys_sync writeout also block device inodes
In case block device does not have filesystem mounted on it, sys_sync will just
ignore it and doesn't writeout its dirty pages. This is because writeback code
avoids writing inodes from superblock without backing device and
blockdev_superblock is such a superblock.  Since it's unexpected that sync
doesn't writeout dirty data for block devices be nice to users and change the
behavior to do so. So now we iterate over all block devices on blockdev_super
instead of iterating over all superblocks when syncing block devices.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:49 +04:00
Jan Kara
5c0d6b60a0 vfs: Create function for iterating over block devices
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:45 +04:00
Jan Kara
b3de653105 vfs: Reorder operations during sys_sync
Change the order of operations during sync from

for_each_sb {
        writeback_inodes_sb();
        sync_fs(nowait);
        __sync_blockdev(nowait);
}
for_each_sb {
        sync_inodes_sb();
        sync_fs(wait);
        __sync_blockdev(wait);
}

to

for_each_sb
        writeback_inodes_sb();
for_each_sb
        sync_fs(nowait);
for_each_sb
        __sync_blockdev(nowait);
for_each_sb
        sync_inodes_sb();
for_each_sb
        sync_fs(wait);
for_each_sb
        __sync_blockdev(wait);

This is a preparation for the following patches in this series.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:41 +04:00
Jan Kara
a117782571 quota: Move quota syncing to ->sync_fs method
Since the moment writes to quota files are using block device page cache and
space for quota structures is reserved at the moment they are first accessed we
have no reason to sync quota before inode writeback. In fact this order is now
only harmful since quota information can easily change during inode writeback
(either because conversion of delayed-allocated extents or simply because of
allocation of new blocks for simple filesystems not using page_mkwrite).

So move syncing of quota information after writeback of inodes into ->sync_fs
method. This way we do not have to use ->quota_sync callback which is primarily
intended for use by quotactl syscall anyway and we get rid of calling
->sync_fs() twice unnecessarily. We skip quota syncing for OCFS2 since it does
proper quota journalling in all cases (unlike ext3, ext4, and reiserfs which
also support legacy non-journalled quotas) and thus there are no dirty quota
structures.

CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
CC: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:34 +04:00
Jan Kara
ceed17236a quota: Split dquot_quota_sync() to writeback and cache flushing part
Split off part of dquot_quota_sync() which writes dquots into a quota file
to a separate function. In the next patch we will use the function from
filesystems and we do not want to abuse ->quota_sync quotactl callback more
than necessary.

Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:19 +04:00
Jan Kara
6eedc70150 vfs: Move noop_backing_dev_info check from sync into writeback
In principle, a filesystem may want to have ->sync_fs() called during sync(1)
although it does not have a bdi (i.e. s_bdi is set to noop_backing_dev_info).
Only writeback code really needs bdi set to something reasonable. So move the
checks where they are more logical.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:18 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9e9ad5f408 fs/ufs: get rid of write_super
This patch makes UFS stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

The way we implement this is that we schedule a delay job instead relying on
's_dirt' and '->write_super()'.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back.  But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.

Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:16 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
7bd54ef722 fs/ufs: re-arrange the code a bit
This patch does not do any functional changes. It only moves 3 functions
in fs/ufs/super.c a little bit up in order to prepare for further changes
where I'll need this new arrangement to avoid forward declarations.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:14 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
65e5e83f7d fs/ufs: remove extra superblock write on unmount
UFS calls 'ufs_write_super()' from 'ufs_put_super()' in order to write the
superblocks to the media. However, it is not needed because VFS calls
'->sync_fs()' before calling '->put_super()' - so by the time we are in
'ufs_write_super()', the superblocks are already synchronized.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:14 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9d46be294d fs/sysv: stop using write_super and s_dirt
It does not look like sysv FS needs 'write_super()' at all, because all it
does is a timestamp update. I cannot test this patch, because this
file-system is so old and probably has not been used by anyone for years,
so there are no tools to create it in Linux. But from the code I see that
marking the superblock as dirty is basically marking the superblock buffers as
drity and then setting the s_dirt flag. And when 'write_super()' is executed to
handle the s_dirt flag, we just update the timestamp and again mark the
superblock buffer as dirty. Seems pointless.

It looks like we can update the timestamp more opprtunistically - on unmount
or remount of sync, and nothing should change.

Thus, this patch removes 'sysv_write_super()' and 's_dirt'.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:12 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
eee458936b fs/sysv: remove another useless write_super call
We do not need to call 'sysv_write_super()' from 'sysv_remount()',
because VFS has called 'sysv_sync_fs()' before calling '->remount()'.
So remove it. Remove also '(un)lock_super()' which obvioulsy is becoming
useless in this function.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:11 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
a4d05d315a fs/sysv: remove useless write_super call
We do not need to call 'sysv_write_super()' from 'sysv_put_super()',
because VFS has called 'sysv_sync_fs()' before calling '->put_super()'.
So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:10 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
5687b5780e hfs: get rid of hfs_sync_super
This patch makes hfs stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back.  But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.

Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:09 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b16ca62635 hfs: introduce VFS superblock object back-reference
Add an 'sb' VFS superblock back-reference to the 'struct hfs_sb_info' data
structure - we will need to find the VFS superblock from a
'struct hfs_sb_info' object in the next patch, so this change is jut a
preparation.

Remove few useless newlines while on it.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:08 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4527440d5d hfs: simplify a bit checking for R/O
We have the following pattern in 2 places in HFS

if (!RDONLY)
	hfs_mdb_commit();

This patch pushes the RDONLY check down to 'hfs_mdb_commit()'. This will
make the following patches a bit simpler.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:07 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
a3742d4828 hfs: remove extra mdb write on unmount
HFS calls 'hfs_write_super()' from 'hfs_put_super()' in order to write the MDB
to the media. However, it is not needed because VFS calls '->sync_fs()' before
calling '->put_super()' - so by the time we are in 'hfs_write_super()', the MDB
is already synchronized.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:07 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b59352359d hfs: get rid of lock_super
Stop using lock_super for serializing the MDB changes - use the buffer-head own
lock instead. Tested with fsstress.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:06 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
715189d836 hfs: push lock_super down
HFS uses 'lock_super()'/'unlock_super()' around 'hfs_mdb_commit()' in order
to serialize MDB (Master Directory Block) changes. Push it down to
'hfs_mdb_commit()' in order to simplify the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:05 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
9e6c5829b0 hfsplus: get rid of write_super
This patch makes hfsplus stop using the VFS '->write_super()' method along with
the 's_dirt' superblock flag, because they are on their way out.

The whole "superblock write-out" VFS infrastructure is served by the
'sync_supers()' kernel thread, which wakes up every 5 (by default) seconds and
writes out all dirty superblocks using the '->write_super()' call-back.  But the
problem with this thread is that it wastes power by waking up the system every
5 seconds, even if there are no diry superblocks, or there are no client
file-systems which would need this (e.g., btrfs does not use
'->write_super()'). So we want to kill it completely and thus, we need to make
file-systems to stop using the '->write_super()' VFS service, and then remove
it together with the kernel thread.

Tested using fsstress from the LTP project.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:04 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
58770d7e83 hfsplus: remove useless check
This check is useless because we always have 'sb->s_fs_info' to be non-NULL.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:03 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
b7a90e8043 hfsplus: amend debugging print
Print correct function name in the debugging print of the
'hfsplus_sync_fs()' function.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:02 +04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
0a81861978 hfsplus: make hfsplus_sync_fs static
... because it is used only in fs/hfsplus/super.c.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:01 +04:00
Al Viro
d35abdb288 hold task_lock around checks in keyctl
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:01 +04:00
Al Viro
6120d3dbb1 get rid of ->scm_work_list
recursion in __scm_destroy() will be cut by delaying final fput()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:58:00 +04:00
Al Viro
3ffa3c0e3f aio: now fput() is OK from interrupt context; get rid of manual delayed __fput()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:59 +04:00
Al Viro
4a9d4b024a switch fput to task_work_add
... and schedule_work() for interrupt/kernel_thread callers
(and yes, now it *is* OK to call from interrupt).

We are guaranteed that __fput() will be done before we return
to userland (or exit).  Note that for fput() from a kernel
thread we get an async behaviour; it's almost always OK, but
sometimes you might need to have __fput() completed before
you do anything else.  There are two mechanisms for that -
a general barrier (flush_delayed_fput()) and explicit
__fput_sync().  Both should be used with care (as was the
case for fput() from kernel threads all along).  See comments
in fs/file_table.c for details.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:58 +04:00
Al Viro
a2d4c71d15 deal with task_work callbacks adding more work
It doesn't matter on normal return to userland path (we'll recheck the
NOTIFY_RESUME flag anyway), but in case of exit_task_work() we'll
need that as soon as we get callbacks capable of triggering more
task_work_add().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:57 +04:00
Al Viro
ed3e694d78 move exit_task_work() past exit_files() et.al.
... and get rid of PF_EXITING check in task_work_add().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:57 +04:00
Al Viro
67d1214551 merge task_work and rcu_head, get rid of separate allocation for keyring case
task_work and rcu_head are identical now; merge them (calling the result
struct callback_head, rcu_head #define'd to it), kill separate allocation
in security/keys since we can just use cred->rcu now.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:56 +04:00
Al Viro
158e1645e0 trim task_work: get rid of hlist
layout based on Oleg's suggestion; single-linked list,
task->task_works points to the last element, forward pointer
from said last element points to head.  I'd still prefer
much more regular scheme with two pointers in task_work,
but...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:55 +04:00
Al Viro
41f9d29f09 trimming task_work: kill ->data
get rid of the only user of ->data; this is _not_ the final variant - in the
end we'll have task_work and rcu_head identical and just use cred->rcu,
at which point the separate allocation will be gone completely.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:54 +04:00
Al Viro
7266702805 signal: make sure we don't get stopped with pending task_work
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:54 +04:00
Al Viro
1e0ea00144 use __lookup_hash() in kern_path_parent()
No need to bother with lookup_one_len() here - it's an overkill

Signed-off-by Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-22 23:57:53 +04:00
David Howells
0bdaea9017 VFS: Split inode_permission()
Split inode_permission() into inode- and superblock-dependent parts.

This is aimed at unionmounts where the superblock from the upper layer has to
be checked rather than the superblock from the lower layer as the upper layer
may be writable, thus allowing an unwritable file from the lower layer to be
copied up and modified.

Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (Further development)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:38:36 +04:00
David Howells
9249e17fe0 VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()
Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called.  They could also be passed to the
compare function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:38:34 +04:00
David Howells
f015f1267b VFS: Comment mount following code
Add comments describing what the directions "up" and "down" mean and ref count
handling to the VFS mount following family of functions.

Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> (Original author)
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:38:32 +04:00
David Howells
be34d1a3bc VFS: Make clone_mnt()/copy_tree()/collect_mounts() return errors
copy_tree() can theoretically fail in a case other than ENOMEM, but always
returns NULL which is interpreted by callers as -ENOMEM.  Change it to return
an explicit error.

Also change clone_mnt() for consistency and because union mounts will add new
error cases.

Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> for a bug fix.
[AV: folded braino fix by Dan Carpenter]

Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:37:27 +04:00
David Howells
55e4def0a6 VFS: Make chown() and lchown() call fchownat()
Make the chown() and lchown() syscalls jump to the fchownat() syscall with the
appropriate extra arguments.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:54 +04:00
Al Viro
c3c4f69424 do_dentry_open(): close the race with mark_files_ro() in failure exit
we want to take it out of mark_files_ro() reach *before* we start
checking if we ought to drop write access.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:50 +04:00
Al Viro
85d7d618c1 mark_files_ro(): don't bother with mntget/mntput
mnt_drop_write_file() is safe under any lock

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:46 +04:00
Andrew Morton
c4107b3097 notify_change(): check that i_mutex is held
Cc: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:42 +04:00
Christoph Hellwig
b5fb63c183 fs: add nd_jump_link
Add a helper that abstracts out the jump to an already parsed struct path
from ->follow_link operation from procfs.  Not only does this clean up
the code by moving the two sides of this game into a single helper, but
it also prepares for making struct nameidata private to namei.c

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:40 +04:00
Christoph Hellwig
408ef013cc fs: move path_put on failure out of ->follow_link
Currently the non-nd_set_link based versions of ->follow_link are expected
to do a path_put(&nd->path) on failure.  This calling convention is unexpected,
undocumented and doesn't match what the nd_set_link-based instances do.

Move the path_put out of the only non-nd_set_link based ->follow_link
instance into the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:35 +04:00
Al Viro
ac481d6ca4 debugfs: get rid of useless arguments to debugfs_{mkdir,symlink}
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-14 16:35:30 +04:00