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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2015-05-02 13:32:22 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2015-05-10 22:19:45 -0400 |
| commit | 680baacbca69d18a6d7315374ad83d05ac9c0977 (patch) | |
| tree | a69822ef5234d4a308b780ff51c5d9b77bd3a89b /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 46afd6f61cc33ae4b3a2aed4bb454d11d4114c27 (diff) | |
new ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions
a) instead of storing the symlink body (via nd_set_link()) and returning
an opaque pointer later passed to ->put_link(), ->follow_link() _stores_
that opaque pointer (into void * passed by address by caller) and returns
the symlink body. Returning ERR_PTR() on error, NULL on jump (procfs magic
symlinks) and pointer to symlink body for normal symlinks. Stored pointer
is ignored in all cases except the last one.
Storing NULL for opaque pointer (or not storing it at all) means no call
of ->put_link().
b) the body used to be passed to ->put_link() implicitly (via nameidata).
Now only the opaque pointer is. In the cases when we used the symlink body
to free stuff, ->follow_link() now should store it as opaque pointer in addition
to returning it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 0a926e2ba3ab..7fa6c4ac858c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ prototypes: int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); - void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); - void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); + const char *(*follow_link) (struct dentry *, void **, struct nameidata *); + void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, void *); void (*truncate) (struct inode *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int, unsigned int); int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 5d833b32bbcd..1c6b03ac2e5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -350,8 +350,8 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*rename2) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int); int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); - void * (*follow_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); - void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); + const char *(*follow_link) (struct dentry *, void **, struct nameidata *); + void (*put_link) (struct dentry *, void *); int (*permission) (struct inode *, int); int (*get_acl)(struct inode *, int); int (*setattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *); |