don't pass nameidata to ->create()

boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2012-06-10 18:05:36 -04:00
parent 72bd866a01
commit ebfc3b49a7
51 changed files with 62 additions and 64 deletions

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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ d_manage: no no yes (ref-walk) maybe
--------------------------- inode_operations ---------------------------
prototypes:
int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, struct nameidata *);
int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *,umode_t, bool);
struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);

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@@ -436,3 +436,9 @@ d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.
[mandatory]
The witch is dead! Well, 2/3 of it, anyway. ->d_revalidate() and
->lookup() do *not* take struct nameidata anymore; just the flags.
--
[mandatory]
->create() doesn't take struct nameidata *; unlike the previous
two, it gets "is it an O_EXCL or equivalent?" boolean argument. Note that
local filesystems can ignore tha argument - they are guaranteed that the
object doesn't exist. It's remote/distributed ones that might care...

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@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an inode in your
filesystem. As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined:
struct inode_operations {
int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, struct nameidata *);
int (*create) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, umode_t, bool);
struct dentry * (*lookup) (struct inode *,struct dentry *, unsigned int);
int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *);
int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *);