[RFC PATCH v6 01/20] vfs: export new_inode_pseudo

Jeff Layton
2021-04-13T17:50:56Z

Ceph needs to be able to allocate inodes ahead of a create that might
involve a fscrypt-encrypted inode. new_inode() almost fits the bill,
but it puts the inode on the sb->s_inodes list and when we go to hash
it, that might be done again.

We could work around that by setting I_CREATING on the new inode, but
that causes ilookup5 to return -ESTALE if something tries to find it
before I_NEW is cleared. This is desirable behavior for most
filesystems, but doesn't work for ceph.

To work around all of this, just use new_inode_pseudo which doesn't add
it to the sb->s_inodes list.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
fs/inode.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index a047ab306f9a..0745dc5d0924 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -935,6 +935,7 @@ struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb)
}
return inode;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode_pseudo);

/**
* new_inode - obtain an inode
--
2.30.2