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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch v5.2.19</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fs: Export generic_fadvise()</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T11:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-29T16:04:11+00:00</published>
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commit cf1ea0592dbf109e7e7935b7d5b1a47a1ba04174 upstream.

Filesystems will need to call this function from their fadvise handlers.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cf1ea0592dbf109e7e7935b7d5b1a47a1ba04174 upstream.

Filesystems will need to call this function from their fadvise handlers.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>loop: Fix mount(2) failure due to race with LOOP_SET_FD</title>
<updated>2019-08-06T17:08:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-30T11:10:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4c825540af16197d84e6cf943972eccf6ea54ff6'/>
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commit 89e524c04fa966330e2e80ab2bc50b9944c5847a upstream.

Commit 33ec3e53e7b1 ("loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive
opener") made LOOP_SET_FD ioctl acquire exclusive block device reference
while it updates loop device binding. However this can make perfectly
valid mount(2) fail with EBUSY due to racing LOOP_SET_FD holding
temporarily the exclusive bdev reference in cases like this:

for i in {a..z}{a..z}; do
        dd if=/dev/zero of=$i.image bs=1k count=0 seek=1024
        mkfs.ext2 $i.image
        mkdir mnt$i
done

echo "Run"
for i in {a..z}{a..z}; do
        mount -o loop -t ext2 $i.image mnt$i &amp;
done

Fix the problem by not getting full exclusive bdev reference in
LOOP_SET_FD but instead just mark the bdev as being claimed while we
update the binding information. This just blocks new exclusive openers
instead of failing them with EBUSY thus fixing the problem.

Fixes: 33ec3e53e7b1 ("loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Kai-Heng Feng &lt;kai.heng.feng@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 89e524c04fa966330e2e80ab2bc50b9944c5847a upstream.

Commit 33ec3e53e7b1 ("loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive
opener") made LOOP_SET_FD ioctl acquire exclusive block device reference
while it updates loop device binding. However this can make perfectly
valid mount(2) fail with EBUSY due to racing LOOP_SET_FD holding
temporarily the exclusive bdev reference in cases like this:

for i in {a..z}{a..z}; do
        dd if=/dev/zero of=$i.image bs=1k count=0 seek=1024
        mkfs.ext2 $i.image
        mkdir mnt$i
done

echo "Run"
for i in {a..z}{a..z}; do
        mount -o loop -t ext2 $i.image mnt$i &amp;
done

Fix the problem by not getting full exclusive bdev reference in
LOOP_SET_FD but instead just mark the bdev as being claimed while we
update the binding information. This just blocks new exclusive openers
instead of failing them with EBUSY thus fixing the problem.

Fixes: 33ec3e53e7b1 ("loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Kai-Heng Feng &lt;kai.heng.feng@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: add filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors()</title>
<updated>2019-07-28T06:27:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ross Zwisler</name>
<email>zwisler@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-20T21:05:37+00:00</published>
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commit aa0bfcd939c30617385ffa28682c062d78050eba upstream.

In the spirit of filemap_fdatawait_range() and
filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(), introduce
filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors() which both takes a range upon
which to wait and does not clear errors from the address space.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit aa0bfcd939c30617385ffa28682c062d78050eba upstream.

In the spirit of filemap_fdatawait_range() and
filemap_fdatawait_keep_errors(), introduce
filemap_fdatawait_range_keep_errors() which both takes a range upon
which to wait and does not clear errors from the address space.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T04:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T04:12:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5abe37954e9a315c35c9490f78d55f307c3c636b'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add as a feature case-insensitive directories (the casefold feature)
  using Unicode 12.1.

  Also, the usual largish number of cleanups and bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: export /sys/fs/ext4/feature/casefold if Unicode support is present
  ext4: fix ext4_show_options for file systems w/o journal
  unicode: refactor the rule for regenerating utf8data.h
  docs: ext4.rst: document case-insensitive directories
  ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups
  ext4: include charset encoding information in the superblock
  MAINTAINERS: add Unicode subsystem entry
  unicode: update unicode database unicode version 12.1.0
  unicode: introduce test module for normalized utf8 implementation
  unicode: implement higher level API for string handling
  unicode: reduce the size of utf8data[]
  unicode: introduce code for UTF-8 normalization
  unicode: introduce UTF-8 character database
  ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow
  ext4: cond_resched in work-heavy group loops
  ext4: fix use-after-free race with debug_want_extra_isize
  ext4: avoid drop reference to iloc.bh twice
  ext4: ignore e_value_offs for xattrs with value-in-ea-inode
  ext4: protect journal inode's blocks using block_validity
  ext4: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1)
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add as a feature case-insensitive directories (the casefold feature)
  using Unicode 12.1.

  Also, the usual largish number of cleanups and bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: export /sys/fs/ext4/feature/casefold if Unicode support is present
  ext4: fix ext4_show_options for file systems w/o journal
  unicode: refactor the rule for regenerating utf8data.h
  docs: ext4.rst: document case-insensitive directories
  ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups
  ext4: include charset encoding information in the superblock
  MAINTAINERS: add Unicode subsystem entry
  unicode: update unicode database unicode version 12.1.0
  unicode: introduce test module for normalized utf8 implementation
  unicode: implement higher level API for string handling
  unicode: reduce the size of utf8data[]
  unicode: introduce code for UTF-8 normalization
  unicode: introduce UTF-8 character database
  ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow
  ext4: cond_resched in work-heavy group loops
  ext4: fix use-after-free race with debug_want_extra_isize
  ext4: avoid drop reference to iloc.bh twice
  ext4: ignore e_value_offs for xattrs with value-in-ea-inode
  ext4: protect journal inode's blocks using block_validity
  ext4: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1)
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'afs-next-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T03:51:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T03:51:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e5fef2a9732580c5bd30c0097f5e9091a3d58ce5'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull AFS updates from David Howells:
 "A set of fix and development patches for AFS for 5.2.

  Summary:

   - Fix the AFS file locking so that sqlite can run on an AFS mount and
     also so that firefox and gnome can use a homedir that's mounted
     through AFS.

     This required emulation of fine-grained locking when the server
     will only support whole-file locks and no upgrade/downgrade. Four
     modes are provided, settable by mount parameter:

       "flock=local"   - No reference to the server

       "flock=openafs" - Fine-grained locks are local-only, whole-file
                         locks require sufficient server locks

       "flock=strict"  - All locks require sufficient server locks

       "flock=write"   - Always get an exclusive server lock

     If the volume is a read-only or backup volume, then flock=local for
     that volume.

   - Log extra information for a couple of cases where the client mucks
     up somehow: AFS vnode with undefined type and dir check failure -
     in both cases we seem to end up with unfilled data, but the issues
     happen infrequently and are difficult to reproduce at will.

   - Implement silly rename for unlink() and rename().

   - Set i_blocks so that du can get some information about usage.

   - Fix xattr handlers to return the right amount of data and to not
     overflow buffers.

   - Implement getting/setting raw AFS and YFS ACLs as xattrs"

* tag 'afs-next-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  afs: Implement YFS ACL setting
  afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs
  afs: implement acl setting
  afs: Get an AFS3 ACL as an xattr
  afs: Fix getting the afs.fid xattr
  afs: Fix the afs.cell and afs.volume xattr handlers
  afs: Calculate i_blocks based on file size
  afs: Log more information for "kAFS: AFS vnode with undefined type\n"
  afs: Provide mount-time configurable byte-range file locking emulation
  afs: Add more tracepoints
  afs: Implement sillyrename for unlink and rename
  afs: Add directory reload tracepoint
  afs: Handle lock rpc ops failing on a file that got deleted
  afs: Improve dir check failure reports
  afs: Add file locking tracepoints
  afs: Further fix file locking
  afs: Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks
  afs: Calculate lock extend timer from set/extend reply reception
  afs: Split wait from afs_make_call()
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Pull AFS updates from David Howells:
 "A set of fix and development patches for AFS for 5.2.

  Summary:

   - Fix the AFS file locking so that sqlite can run on an AFS mount and
     also so that firefox and gnome can use a homedir that's mounted
     through AFS.

     This required emulation of fine-grained locking when the server
     will only support whole-file locks and no upgrade/downgrade. Four
     modes are provided, settable by mount parameter:

       "flock=local"   - No reference to the server

       "flock=openafs" - Fine-grained locks are local-only, whole-file
                         locks require sufficient server locks

       "flock=strict"  - All locks require sufficient server locks

       "flock=write"   - Always get an exclusive server lock

     If the volume is a read-only or backup volume, then flock=local for
     that volume.

   - Log extra information for a couple of cases where the client mucks
     up somehow: AFS vnode with undefined type and dir check failure -
     in both cases we seem to end up with unfilled data, but the issues
     happen infrequently and are difficult to reproduce at will.

   - Implement silly rename for unlink() and rename().

   - Set i_blocks so that du can get some information about usage.

   - Fix xattr handlers to return the right amount of data and to not
     overflow buffers.

   - Implement getting/setting raw AFS and YFS ACLs as xattrs"

* tag 'afs-next-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  afs: Implement YFS ACL setting
  afs: Get YFS ACLs and information through xattrs
  afs: implement acl setting
  afs: Get an AFS3 ACL as an xattr
  afs: Fix getting the afs.fid xattr
  afs: Fix the afs.cell and afs.volume xattr handlers
  afs: Calculate i_blocks based on file size
  afs: Log more information for "kAFS: AFS vnode with undefined type\n"
  afs: Provide mount-time configurable byte-range file locking emulation
  afs: Add more tracepoints
  afs: Implement sillyrename for unlink and rename
  afs: Add directory reload tracepoint
  afs: Handle lock rpc ops failing on a file that got deleted
  afs: Improve dir check failure reports
  afs: Add file locking tracepoints
  afs: Further fix file locking
  afs: Fix AFS file locking to allow fine grained locks
  afs: Calculate lock extend timer from set/extend reply reception
  afs: Split wait from afs_make_call()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T03:34:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T03:34:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d897166d8598e362a31d79dfd9a1e2eedb9ac85c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull vfs 'struct file' related updates from Al Viro:
 "A bit more of 'this fget() would be better off as fdget()'
  whack-a-mole + a couple of -&gt;f_count-related cleanups"

* 'work.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  media: switch to fdget()
  drm_syncobj: switch to fdget()
  amdgpu: switch to fdget()
  don't open-code file_count()
  fs: drop unused fput_atomic definition
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<pre>
Pull vfs 'struct file' related updates from Al Viro:
 "A bit more of 'this fget() would be better off as fdget()'
  whack-a-mole + a couple of -&gt;f_count-related cleanups"

* 'work.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  media: switch to fdget()
  drm_syncobj: switch to fdget()
  amdgpu: switch to fdget()
  don't open-code file_count()
  fs: drop unused fput_atomic definition
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.mount-syscalls' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T03:17:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T03:17:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=400913252d09f9cfb8cce33daee43167921fc343'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull mount ABI updates from Al Viro:
 "The syscalls themselves, finally.

  That's not all there is to that stuff, but switching individual
  filesystems to new methods is fortunately independent from everything
  else, so e.g. NFS series can go through NFS tree, etc.

  As those conversions get done, we'll be finally able to get rid of a
  bunch of duplication in fs/super.c introduced in the beginning of the
  entire thing. I expect that to be finished in the next window..."

* 'work.mount-syscalls' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API
  vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration
  vfs: syscall: Add fsmount() to create a mount for a superblock
  vfs: syscall: Add fsconfig() for configuring and managing a context
  vfs: Implement logging through fs_context
  vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation
  Make anon_inodes unconditional
  teach move_mount(2) to work with OPEN_TREE_CLONE
  vfs: syscall: Add move_mount(2) to move mounts around
  vfs: syscall: Add open_tree(2) to reference or clone a mount
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<pre>
Pull mount ABI updates from Al Viro:
 "The syscalls themselves, finally.

  That's not all there is to that stuff, but switching individual
  filesystems to new methods is fortunately independent from everything
  else, so e.g. NFS series can go through NFS tree, etc.

  As those conversions get done, we'll be finally able to get rid of a
  bunch of duplication in fs/super.c introduced in the beginning of the
  entire thing. I expect that to be finished in the next window..."

* 'work.mount-syscalls' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: Add a sample program for the new mount API
  vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration
  vfs: syscall: Add fsmount() to create a mount for a superblock
  vfs: syscall: Add fsconfig() for configuring and managing a context
  vfs: Implement logging through fs_context
  vfs: syscall: Add fsopen() to prepare for superblock creation
  Make anon_inodes unconditional
  teach move_mount(2) to work with OPEN_TREE_CLONE
  vfs: syscall: Add move_mount(2) to move mounts around
  vfs: syscall: Add open_tree(2) to reference or clone a mount
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-5.2/io_uring-20190507' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T01:30:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T01:30:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=52ae2456d6a455ef958bcf1c2d1965674076887e'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Set of changes/improvements for io_uring. This contains:

   - Fix of a shadowed variable (Colin)

   - Add support for draining commands (me)

   - Add support for sync_file_range() (me)

   - Add eventfd support (me)

   - cpu_online() fix (Shenghui)

   - Removal of a redundant -&gt;error assignment (Stefan)"

* tag 'for-5.2/io_uring-20190507' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  io_uring: use cpu_online() to check p-&gt;sq_thread_cpu instead of cpu_possible()
  io_uring: fix shadowed variable ret return code being not checked
  req-&gt;error only used for iopoll
  io_uring: add support for eventfd notifications
  io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_SYNC_FILE_RANGE
  fs: add sync_file_range() helper
  io_uring: add support for marking commands as draining
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<pre>
Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Set of changes/improvements for io_uring. This contains:

   - Fix of a shadowed variable (Colin)

   - Add support for draining commands (me)

   - Add support for sync_file_range() (me)

   - Add eventfd support (me)

   - cpu_online() fix (Shenghui)

   - Removal of a redundant -&gt;error assignment (Stefan)"

* tag 'for-5.2/io_uring-20190507' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  io_uring: use cpu_online() to check p-&gt;sq_thread_cpu instead of cpu_possible()
  io_uring: fix shadowed variable ret return code being not checked
  req-&gt;error only used for iopoll
  io_uring: add support for eventfd notifications
  io_uring: add support for IORING_OP_SYNC_FILE_RANGE
  fs: add sync_file_range() helper
  io_uring: add support for marking commands as draining
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add sync_file_range() helper</title>
<updated>2019-05-02T20:08:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-09T20:51:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=22f96b3808c12a218e9a3bce6e1bfbd74efbe374'/>
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<content type='text'>
This just pulls out the ksys_sync_file_range() code to work on a struct
file instead of an fd, so we can use it elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
This just pulls out the ksys_sync_file_range() code to work on a struct
file instead of an fd, so we can use it elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>new inode method: -&gt;free_inode()</title>
<updated>2019-05-02T02:37:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2019-04-10T18:43:44+00:00</published>
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A lot of -&gt;destroy_inode() instances end with call_rcu() of a callback
that does RCU-delayed part of freeing.  Introduce a new method for
doing just that, with saner signature.

Rules:
-&gt;destroy_inode		-&gt;free_inode
	f			g		immediate call of f(),
						RCU-delayed call of g()
	f			NULL		immediate call of f(),
						no RCU-delayed calls
	NULL			g		RCU-delayed call of g()
	NULL			NULL		RCU-delayed default freeing

IOW, NULL -&gt;free_inode gives the same behaviour as now.

Note that NULL, NULL is equivalent to NULL, free_inode_nonrcu; we could
mandate the latter form, but that would have very little benefit beyond
making rules a bit more symmetric.  It would break backwards compatibility,
require extra boilerplate and expected semantics for (NULL, NULL) pair
would have no use whatsoever...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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A lot of -&gt;destroy_inode() instances end with call_rcu() of a callback
that does RCU-delayed part of freeing.  Introduce a new method for
doing just that, with saner signature.

Rules:
-&gt;destroy_inode		-&gt;free_inode
	f			g		immediate call of f(),
						RCU-delayed call of g()
	f			NULL		immediate call of f(),
						no RCU-delayed calls
	NULL			g		RCU-delayed call of g()
	NULL			NULL		RCU-delayed default freeing

IOW, NULL -&gt;free_inode gives the same behaviour as now.

Note that NULL, NULL is equivalent to NULL, free_inode_nonrcu; we could
mandate the latter form, but that would have very little benefit beyond
making rules a bit more symmetric.  It would break backwards compatibility,
require extra boilerplate and expected semantics for (NULL, NULL) pair
would have no use whatsoever...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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