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sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes

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The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry
for sysfs.  To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed
prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.

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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Eric W. Biederman 2009-02-11 13:20:23 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 425cb02912
commit 04256b4a8f
3 changed files with 19 additions and 0 deletions
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fs/sysfs/inode.c
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@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void sysfs_init_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct inode *inode)
{
struct bin_attribute *bin_attr;
inode->i_private = sysfs_get(sd);
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysfs_aops;
inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &sysfs_backing_dev_info;
inode->i_op = &sysfs_inode_operations;
@ -214,6 +215,22 @@ struct inode * sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
return inode;
}
/*
* The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs.
* To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely we take a
* reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode. A
* super_operations.delete_inode() implementation is needed to drop that
* reference upon inode destruction.
*/
void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *sd = inode->i_private;
truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
clear_inode(inode);
sysfs_put(sd);
}
int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name)
{
struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;

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fs/sysfs/mount.c
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@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *sysfs_dir_cachep;
static const struct super_operations sysfs_ops = {
.statfs = simple_statfs,
.drop_inode = generic_delete_inode,
.delete_inode = sysfs_delete_inode,
};
struct sysfs_dirent sysfs_root = {

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fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
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@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static inline void __sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
* inode.c
*/
struct inode *sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode);
int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr);
int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name);
int sysfs_inode_init(void);