Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753478AbXJANKJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:10:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752628AbXJANJp (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:09:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43065 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752049AbXJANJm (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 09:09:42 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells Subject: [PATCH 01/30] IGET: Introduce a function to register iget failure To: hch@infradead.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:09:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20071001130927.29339.91644.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071001130921.29339.72876.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <20071001130921.29339.72876.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> User-Agent: StGIT/0.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2576 Lines: 81 Introduce a function to register failure in an inode construction path. This includes marking the inode under construction as bad, unlocking it and releasing it. Signed-off-by: David Howells --- Documentation/filesystems/porting | 18 +++++++++++++----- fs/bad_inode.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index dac45c9..3b0fb22 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -184,11 +184,19 @@ just takes the superblock and inode number as arguments and does the test and set for you. e.g. - inode = iget_locked(sb, ino); - if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) { - read_inode_from_disk(inode); - unlock_new_inode(inode); - } + inode = iget_locked(sb, ino); + if (inode->i_state & I_NEW) { + err = read_inode_from_disk(inode); + if (err < 0) { + iget_failed(inode); + return err; + } + unlock_new_inode(inode); + } + +Note that if the process of setting up a new inode fails, then iget_failed() +should be called on the inode to render it dead, and an appropriate error +should be passed back to the caller. --- [recommended] diff --git a/fs/bad_inode.c b/fs/bad_inode.c index 521ff7c..f1c2ea8 100644 --- a/fs/bad_inode.c +++ b/fs/bad_inode.c @@ -359,3 +359,17 @@ int is_bad_inode(struct inode *inode) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(is_bad_inode); + +/** + * iget_failed - Mark an under-construction inode as dead and release it + * @inode: The inode to discard + * + * Mark an under-construction inode as dead and release it. + */ +void iget_failed(struct inode *inode) +{ + make_bad_inode(inode); + unlock_new_inode(inode); + iput(inode); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iget_failed); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 16421f6..c24d433 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1631,6 +1631,7 @@ static inline struct inode *iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) } extern void __iget(struct inode * inode); +extern void iget_failed(struct inode *); extern void clear_inode(struct inode *); extern void destroy_inode(struct inode *); extern struct inode *new_inode(struct super_block *); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/