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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/25] vfs: atomic open RFC
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:00:05PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> > Do we really need the opendata structure?
>> >
>> > It seems like we could just pass a struct path instead of the dentry
>> > passed directly and the vfsmount in it. There should be no need to
>> > preallocate the file before calling into ->atomic_open, as it's only
>> > used to pass around f_flags - but we already pass that one to
>> > ->atomic_open directly and might as well pass it on to finish_open and
>> > allocate the file there.
>>
>> We really don't want to get into the situation where the open fails
>> after a successful create(*). Which means the file needs to be allocated
>> prior to calling ->atomic_open and needs to be passed to finish_open()
>> toghether with the vfsmount and dentry.
>>
>> In the first version of the patch I set filp->f_path.mnt to nd->path.mnt
>> and passed the half initialized filp to ->atomic_open. But then decided
>> that it's confusing for the filesystem code to deal with a half baked
>> filp (does it need to be fput on error? etc...)
>>
>> Doing it with an opaque opendata makes this cleaner I think.
>
> Make sense. Can you throw in another cleanup patch to really just make
> it a pass-through and not also use it as a boolean flag if open_flags
> should be obeyed? This probably will change sematincs for the various
> filesystems, but given that they should behave the same way that's a
> good thing.

It's not just that. The filesystems will create some state if od is
non-NULL, which is released in f_op->release. If od is always non-NULL
then the VFS has to call ->release on a dummy file, that file has to be
allocated, which might fail... So this brings with it a couple of
issues that I didn't want to deal with.

But yes, it would probably be a good cleanup...

Thanks,
Miklos


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