[patch 05/12] VFS: allow filesystems to implement atomic open+truncate

Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-02T15:53:40Z

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

Add a new attribute flag ATTR_OPEN, with the meaning: "truncation was
initiated by open() due to the O_TRUNC flag".

This way filesystems wanting to implement truncation within their
->open() method can ignore such truncate requests.

This is a quick & dirty hack, but it comes for free.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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Index: linux/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/namei.c 2007-09-25 21:32:04.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/fs/namei.c 2007-09-25 21:56:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -1667,8 +1667,10 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
error = locks_verify_locked(inode);
if (!error) {
DQUOT_INIT(inode);
-
- error = do_truncate(dentry, 0, ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME, NULL);
+
+ error = do_truncate(dentry, 0,
+ ATTR_MTIME|ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_OPEN,
+ NULL);
}
put_write_access(inode);
if (error)
Index: linux/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2007-09-25 21:32:05.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/include/linux/fs.h 2007-09-25 21:56:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ typedef void (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb
#define ATTR_KILL_SGID 4096
#define ATTR_FILE 8192
#define ATTR_KILL_PRIV 16384
+#define ATTR_OPEN 32768 /* Truncating from open(O_TRUNC) */

/*
* This is the Inode Attributes structure, used for notify_change(). It

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