Introduce helpers for filesystems interested in reporting FS_ERROR
events. When notifying errors, the file system might not have an inode
to report on the error. To support this, allow the caller to specify
the superblock to which the error applies.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v2:
- Drop reference to s_fnotify_marks and guards (Amir)
Changes since v1:
- Use the inode argument (Amir)
- Protect s_fsnotify_marks with ifdef guard
---
fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 2 +-
include/linux/fsnotify.h | 13 +++++++++++++
include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
index 36205a769dde..ac05eb3fb368 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fsnotify.c
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ int __fsnotify(__u32 mask, const struct fsnotify_event_info *event_info)
*/
parent = event_info->dir;
}
- sb = inode->i_sb;
+ sb = event_info->sb ?: inode->i_sb;
/*
* Optimization: srcu_read_lock() has a memory barrier which can
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
index 8c2c681b4495..684c79ca01b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
@@ -326,4 +326,17 @@ static inline void fsnotify_change(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int ia_valid)
fsnotify_dentry(dentry, mask);
}
+static inline int fsnotify_sb_error(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode,
+ int error)
+{
+ struct fs_error_report report = {
+ .error = error,
+ .inode = inode,
+ };
+
+ return __fsnotify(FS_ERROR, &(struct fsnotify_event_info) {
+ .data = &report, .data_type = FSNOTIFY_EVENT_ERROR,
+ .sb = sb});
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_FS_NOTIFY_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index ea5f5c7cc381..5a32c5010f45 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ struct fsnotify_event_info {
struct inode *dir;
const struct qstr *name;
struct inode *inode;
+ struct super_block *sb;
u32 cookie;
};
--
2.32.0
