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Remove dcache_lock locking from hostfs filesystem, and move it into dcache
helpers. All that is required is a coherent path name. Protection from
concurrent modification of the namespace after path name generation is not
provided in current code, because dcache_lock is dropped before the path is
used.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
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Nick Piggin committed Jan 7, 2011
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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions fs/dcache.c
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Expand Up @@ -2171,7 +2171,7 @@ char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen,
/*
* Write full pathname from the root of the filesystem into the buffer.
*/
char *__dentry_path(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
static char *__dentry_path(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
{
char *end = buf + buflen;
char *retval;
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Elong:
return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dentry_path);

char *dentry_path_raw(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
{
char *retval;

spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
retval = __dentry_path(dentry, buf, buflen);
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);

return retval;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_path_raw);

char *dentry_path(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, int buflen)
{
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24 changes: 10 additions & 14 deletions fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
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Expand Up @@ -92,12 +92,10 @@ __uml_setup("hostfs=", hostfs_args,

static char *__dentry_name(struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
{
char *p = __dentry_path(dentry, name, PATH_MAX);
char *p = dentry_path_raw(dentry, name, PATH_MAX);
char *root;
size_t len;

spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);

root = dentry->d_sb->s_fs_info;
len = strlen(root);
if (IS_ERR(p)) {
Expand All @@ -123,25 +121,23 @@ static char *dentry_name(struct dentry *dentry)
if (!name)
return NULL;

spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
return __dentry_name(dentry, name); /* will unlock */
}

static char *inode_name(struct inode *ino)
{
struct dentry *dentry;
char *name = __getname();
if (!name)
return NULL;
char *name;

spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
if (list_empty(&ino->i_dentry)) {
spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
__putname(name);
dentry = d_find_alias(ino);
if (!dentry)
return NULL;
}
dentry = list_first_entry(&ino->i_dentry, struct dentry, d_alias);
return __dentry_name(dentry, name); /* will unlock */

name = dentry_name(dentry);

dput(dentry);

return name;
}

static char *follow_link(char *link)
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/dcache.h
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Expand Up @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ extern char *dynamic_dname(struct dentry *, char *, int, const char *, ...);
extern char *__d_path(const struct path *path, struct path *root, char *, int);
extern char *d_path(const struct path *, char *, int);
extern char *d_path_with_unreachable(const struct path *, char *, int);
extern char *__dentry_path(struct dentry *, char *, int);
extern char *dentry_path_raw(struct dentry *, char *, int);
extern char *dentry_path(struct dentry *, char *, int);

/* Allocation counts.. */
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