new helper: inode_wrong_type()

commit 6e3e2c4362e41a2f18e3f7a5ad81bd2f49a47b85 upstream.

inode_wrong_type(inode, mode) returns true if setting inode->i_mode
to given value would've changed the inode type.  We have enough of
those checks open-coded to make a helper worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Al Viro
2021-03-01 20:37:10 -05:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent ded9137fcf
commit 40ba433a85
10 changed files with 22 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static int v9fs_test_inode_dotl(struct inode *inode, void *data)
struct p9_stat_dotl *st = (struct p9_stat_dotl *)data;
/* don't match inode of different type */
if ((inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) != (st->st_mode & S_IFMT))
if (inode_wrong_type(inode, st->st_mode))
return 0;
if (inode->i_generation != st->st_gen)
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ int v9fs_refresh_inode_dotl(struct p9_fid *fid, struct inode *inode)
/*
* Don't update inode if the file type is different
*/
if ((inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) != (st->st_mode & S_IFMT))
if (inode_wrong_type(inode, st->st_mode))
goto out;
/*