On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Factor out some common vfs bits from do_tmpfile() >> to be used by overlayfs for concurrent copy up. > > I'm wondering whether the vfs helper should do everything except the > path lookup and the open: d_alloc(), ->tmpfile() and setting > I_LINKABLE. This will also aid in doing a ->tmpfile() for overlayfs. > I started with that, but slowly trimmed it down to this minimal version. First, mnt_want_write() can't be in there. Then dentry * return value would be a strange deviation from other vfs_ helpers. Lastly, all the open related operations are already performed by ovl_path_open() and I did not want to make an exception, so I resorted to doing d_alloc in ovl_alloc_tmpfile(), which becomes a drop-in replacement for ovl_lookup_temp() and set LINKABLE in ovl_link_tmpfile(), which becomes a drop-in replacement for ovl_do_rename(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
