[Devel] [PATCH 2/6] [RFC] Create the .relink file_operation

Matt Helsley matthltc at us.ibm.com
Thu Sep 23 14:53:28 PDT 2010


Not all filesystems will necessarily be able to support relinking an
orphan inode back into the filesystem. Some offlist feedback suggested
that instead of overloading .link that relinking should be a separate
file operation for this reason.

Since .relink is a superset of .link make the VFS call .relink where
possible and .link otherwise.

The next commit will change ext3/4 to enable this operation.

Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc at us.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel at dilger.ca>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ext4 at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/namei.c         |    5 ++++-
 include/linux/fs.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index a7dce91..eb279e3 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2446,7 +2446,10 @@ int vfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *new_de
 		return error;
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
+	if (dir->i_op->relink)
+		error = dir->i_op->relink(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
+	else
+		error = dir->i_op->link(old_dentry, dir, new_dentry);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	if (!error)
 		fsnotify_link(dir, inode, new_dentry);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ee725ff..d932eb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1528,6 +1528,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
 	int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int, struct nameidata *);
 	struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
 	int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
+	int (*relink) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
 	int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);
 	int (*symlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,const char *);
 	int (*mkdir) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,int);
-- 
1.6.3.3

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