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vfs, cachefiles: Mark a backing file in use with an inode flag
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:58:08 +0000 (08:58 +0000)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Fri, 7 Jan 2022 13:41:32 +0000 (13:41 +0000)
commit1bd9c4e4f0494915b2391f373d25096579f835ff
tree270de5e2b24d809bffe697572c4410e6f05641b9
parent80f94f29f677d32a1edabc055acfe91c00803592
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
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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/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906931596.143852.8642051223094013028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967141000.1823006.12920680657559677789.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021541207.640689.564689725898537127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
fs/cachefiles/Makefile
fs/cachefiles/namei.c [new file with mode: 0644]
fs/namei.c
include/linux/fs.h
include/trace/events/cachefiles.h