Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various people. Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..." * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits) alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers() fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission() fs: add RWF_APPEND sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user() snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user() replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user() new primitive: vmemdup_user() memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget() eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read() eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd() nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user() usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure ...
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@@ -56,13 +56,25 @@ a/ A dentry flag DCACHE_DISCONNECTED which is set on
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any dentry that might not be part of the proper prefix.
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This is set when anonymous dentries are created, and cleared when a
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dentry is noticed to be a child of a dentry which is in the proper
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prefix.
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prefix. If the refcount on a dentry with this flag set
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becomes zero, the dentry is immediately discarded, rather than being
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kept in the dcache. If a dentry that is not already in the dcache
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is repeatedly accessed by filehandle (as NFSD might do), an new dentry
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will be a allocated for each access, and discarded at the end of
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the access.
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b/ A per-superblock list "s_anon" of dentries which are the roots of
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subtrees that are not in the proper prefix. These dentries, as
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well as the proper prefix, need to be released at unmount time. As
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these dentries will not be hashed, they are linked together on the
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d_hash list_head.
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Note that such a dentry can acquire children, name, ancestors, etc.
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without losing DCACHE_DISCONNECTED - that flag is only cleared when
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subtree is successfully reconnected to root. Until then dentries
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in such subtree are retained only as long as there are references;
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refcount reaching zero means immediate eviction, same as for unhashed
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dentries. That guarantees that we won't need to hunt them down upon
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umount.
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b/ A primitive for creation of secondary roots - d_obtain_root(inode).
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Those do _not_ bear DCACHE_DISCONNECTED. They are placed on the
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per-superblock list (->s_roots), so they can be located at umount
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time for eviction purposes.
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c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach
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loose directory dentries at lookup time. They are:
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@@ -77,7 +89,6 @@ c/ Helper routines to allocate anonymous dentries, and to help attach
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(such as an anonymous one created by d_obtain_alias), if appropriate.
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It returns NULL when the passed-in dentry is used, following the calling
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convention of ->lookup.
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