[PATCH 42/61] sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2009-03-25T00:45:25Z

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>

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.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
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>
---
fs/sysfs/inode.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
fs/sysfs/mount.c | 1 +
fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dfa3d94..555f0ff 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -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;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/mount.c b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
index 84ef378..4974995 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
@@ -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 = {
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 93c6d6b..9055d04 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -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);
--
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