From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
sandeen@redhat.com
Subject: Re: why is i_ino unsigned long, anyway?
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 09:05:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131002160527.GB23875@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131002142527.GD14808@fieldses.org>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 10:25:27AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> If so then it's no huge code duplication to it by hand:
>
> if (inode->i_op->getattr)
> inode->i_op->getattr(path->mnt, path->dentry, &stat);
> else
> generic_fillattr(inode, &stat);
Maybe make that a vfs_getattr_nosec and let vfs_getattr call it?
Including a proper kerneldoc comment explaining when to use it, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-02 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-12 16:03 why is i_ino unsigned long, anyway? J. Bruce Fields
2013-09-12 19:33 ` Al Viro
2013-09-29 11:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-02 14:25 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 15:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-02 18:14 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 16:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-10-02 17:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 17:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-10-02 21:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 21:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: split out vfs_getattr_nosec J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 21:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] exportfs: fix 32-bit nfsd handling of 64-bit inode numbers J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-04 22:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-04 22:15 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-08 21:56 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-09 0:16 ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-09 14:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-10 22:28 ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-11 21:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-13 22:52 ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-02 18:47 ` why is i_ino unsigned long, anyway? Sage Weil
2013-10-02 19:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-10-02 19:04 ` Sage Weil
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