From 80c298105bf80e33ae494eaeba51f00352b5373c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:09:29 -0500 Subject: kernfs: Add support for always empty directories. commit ea015218f2f7ace2dad9cedd21ed95bdba2886d7 upstream. Add a new function kernfs_create_empty_dir that can be used to create directory that can not be modified. Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting a permanently empty directory to the vfs. Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> --- include/linux/kernfs.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h index 71ecdab1671b..29d1896c3ba5 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernfs.h +++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ enum kernfs_node_flag { KERNFS_LOCKDEP = 0x0100, KERNFS_SUICIDAL = 0x0400, KERNFS_SUICIDED = 0x0800, + KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR = 0x1000, }; /* @flags for kernfs_create_root() */ @@ -285,6 +286,8 @@ void kernfs_destroy_root(struct kernfs_root *root); struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_dir_ns(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name, umode_t mode, void *priv, const void *ns); +struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_empty_dir(struct kernfs_node *parent, + const char *name); struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_create_file(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name, umode_t mode, loff_t size, -- cgit v1.2.3