On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 06:56:10PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 08:39:30AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > > There's much nastier situation than "new upstream kernel released,
> > > need to rebuild" - it's bisect in mainline trying to locate something...
> >
> > I really don't get the point. And it's not like we've card about
> > this anywhere else. And jumping wildly around with the numeric values
> > for constants will lead to bugs like the one you added and fixed again
> > and again.
>
> The thing is, there are several groups - it's not as if all additions
> were guaranteed to be at the end. So either we play with renumbering
> again and again, or we are back to the square one...
>
> Is there any common trick that would allow to verify the lack of duplicates
> at the build time?
>
> Or we can reorder the list by constant value, with no grouping visible
> anywhere...
Here is what I'd do. No validation of duplicates, but the 1 << bit
notation makes them very easy to spot:
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 397a08ade6a2..a9536f90936c 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -16,28 +16,47 @@ enum { MAX_NESTED_LINKS = 8 };
*/
enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND};
-/* pathwalk mode */
-#define LOOKUP_FOLLOW 0x0001 /* follow links at the end */
-#define LOOKUP_DIRECTORY 0x0002 /* require a directory */
-#define LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT 0x0004 /* force terminal automount */
-#define LOOKUP_EMPTY 0x4000 /* accept empty path [user_... only] */
-#define LOOKUP_DOWN 0x8000 /* follow mounts in the starting point */
-
-#define LOOKUP_REVAL 0x0020 /* tell ->d_revalidate() to trust no cache */
-#define LOOKUP_RCU 0x0040 /* RCU pathwalk mode; semi-internal */
-
-/* These tell filesystem methods that we are dealing with the final component... */
-#define LOOKUP_OPEN 0x0100 /* ... in open */
-#define LOOKUP_CREATE 0x0200 /* ... in object creation */
-#define LOOKUP_EXCL 0x0400 /* ... in exclusive creation */
-#define LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET 0x0800 /* ... in destination of rename() */
-
-/* internal use only */
-#define LOOKUP_PARENT 0x0010
-#define LOOKUP_NO_REVAL 0x0080
-#define LOOKUP_JUMPED 0x1000
-#define LOOKUP_ROOT 0x2000
-#define LOOKUP_ROOT_GRABBED 0x0008
+/*
+ * Pathwalk mode:
+ */
+
+/* follow links at the end */
+#define LOOKUP_FOLLOW (1 << 0)
+/* require a directory */
+#define LOOKUP_DIRECTORY (1 << 1)
+/* force terminal automount */
+#define LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT (1 << 2)
+/* accept empty path [user_... only] */
+#define LOOKUP_EMPTY (1 << 3)
+/* follow mounts in the starting point */
+#define LOOKUP_DOWN (1 << 4)
+/* tell ->d_revalidate() to trust no cache */
+#define LOOKUP_REVAL (1 << 5)
+/* RCU pathwalk mode; semi-internal */
+#define LOOKUP_RCU (1 << 6)
+
+
+/*
+ * These tell filesystem methods that we are dealing with the final component:
+ */
+
+/* ... in open */
+#define LOOKUP_OPEN (1 << 10)
+/* ... in object creation */
+#define LOOKUP_CREATE (1 << 11)
+/* ... in exclusive creation */
+#define LOOKUP_EXCL (1 << 12)
+/* ... in destination of rename() */
+#define LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET (1 << 13)
+
+/*
+ * Internal use only:
+ */
+#define LOOKUP_PARENT (1 << 20)
+#define LOOKUP_NO_REVAL (1 << 21)
+#define LOOKUP_JUMPED (1 << 22)
+#define LOOKUP_ROOT (1 << 23)
+#define LOOKUP_ROOT_GRABBED (1 << 24)
extern int path_pts(struct path *path);
