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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> | 2011-10-28 14:13:30 +0200 |
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| committer | Christoph Hellwig <hch@serles.lst.de> | 2011-11-02 12:53:43 +0100 |
| commit | a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb (patch) | |
| tree | ebd8f8a5a257077912b7cc38ecfdab43e1d7d73d /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | bfe8684869601dacfcb2cd69ef8cfd9045f62170 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb.tar.gz lwn-a78ef704a8dd430225955f0709b22d4a6ba21deb.zip | |
vfs: protect i_nlink
Prevent direct modification of i_nlink by making it const and adding a
non-const __i_nlink alias.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 48c1f5fc7411..23467d768cab 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -768,7 +768,17 @@ struct inode { /* Stat data, not accessed from path walking */ unsigned long i_ino; - unsigned int i_nlink; + /* + * Filesystems may only read i_nlink directly. They shall use the + * following functions for modification: + * + * (set|clear|inc|drop)_nlink + * inode_(inc|dec)_link_count + */ + union { + const unsigned int i_nlink; + unsigned int __i_nlink; + }; dev_t i_rdev; loff_t i_size; struct timespec i_atime; @@ -1764,7 +1774,7 @@ static inline void mark_inode_dirty_sync(struct inode *inode) */ static inline void set_nlink(struct inode *inode, unsigned int nlink) { - inode->i_nlink = nlink; + inode->__i_nlink = nlink; } /** @@ -1777,7 +1787,7 @@ static inline void set_nlink(struct inode *inode, unsigned int nlink) */ static inline void inc_nlink(struct inode *inode) { - inode->i_nlink++; + inode->__i_nlink++; } static inline void inode_inc_link_count(struct inode *inode) @@ -1799,7 +1809,7 @@ static inline void inode_inc_link_count(struct inode *inode) */ static inline void drop_nlink(struct inode *inode) { - inode->i_nlink--; + inode->__i_nlink--; } /** @@ -1812,7 +1822,7 @@ static inline void drop_nlink(struct inode *inode) */ static inline void clear_nlink(struct inode *inode) { - inode->i_nlink = 0; + inode->__i_nlink = 0; } static inline void inode_dec_link_count(struct inode *inode) |