On 3/12/21 8:49 AM, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> So that IORING_OP_GETDENTS may use it, split out the core of the
> getdents64(2) syscall into a helper function, vfs_getdents().
>
> vfs_getdents() calls into filesystems' ->iterate{,_shared}() which
> expect serialization on struct file, which means that callers of
> vfs_getdents() are responsible for either using fdget_pos() or
> performing the equivalent serialization by hand.
Al, how do you feel about this one?
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Jens Axboe
