S_KERNEL_FILE is grossly misnamed. We have plenty of files hold open by the kernel kernel using filp_open. This flag OTOH signals the inode as being a special snowflake that cachefiles holds onto that can't be unlinked because of ..., erm, pixie dust. So clearly mark it as such. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - fix commit message typos fs/cachefiles/namei.c | 12 ++++++------ fs/namei.c | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c index 9bd692870617c..599dc13a7d9ab 100644 --- a/fs/cachefiles/namei.c +++ b/fs/cachefiles/namei.c @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ static bool __cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use(struct cachefiles_object *object, struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry); bool can_use = false; - if (!(inode->i_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE)) { - inode->i_flags |= S_KERNEL_FILE; + if (!(inode->i_flags & S_CACHEFILE)) { + inode->i_flags |= S_CACHEFILE; trace_cachefiles_mark_active(object, inode); can_use = true; } else { @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static void __cachefiles_unmark_inode_in_use(struct cachefiles_object *object, { struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry); - inode->i_flags &= ~S_KERNEL_FILE; + inode->i_flags &= ~S_CACHEFILE; trace_cachefiles_mark_inactive(object, inode); } @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static struct dentry *cachefiles_lookup_for_cull(struct cachefiles_cache *cache, goto lookup_error; if (d_is_negative(victim)) goto lookup_put; - if (d_inode(victim)->i_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE) + if (d_inode(victim)->i_flags & S_CACHEFILE) goto lookup_busy; return victim; @@ -789,11 +789,11 @@ int cachefiles_cull(struct cachefiles_cache *cache, struct dentry *dir, /* check to see if someone is using this object */ inode = d_inode(victim); inode_lock(inode); - if (inode->i_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE) { + if (inode->i_flags & S_CACHEFILE) { ret = -EBUSY; } else { /* Stop the cache from picking it back up */ - inode->i_flags |= S_KERNEL_FILE; + inode->i_flags |= S_CACHEFILE; ret = 0; } inode_unlock(inode); diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index d81f04f8d8188..7402277ecc1f5 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3959,7 +3959,7 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *dir, error = -EBUSY; if (is_local_mountpoint(dentry) || - (dentry->d_inode->i_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE)) + (dentry->d_inode->i_flags & S_CACHEFILE)) goto out; error = security_inode_rmdir(dir, dentry); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index c8510da6cc6dc..099d7e03d46e6 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2173,7 +2173,7 @@ struct super_operations { #define S_ENCRYPTED (1 << 14) /* Encrypted file (using fs/crypto/) */ #define S_CASEFOLD (1 << 15) /* Casefolded file */ #define S_VERITY (1 << 16) /* Verity file (using fs/verity/) */ -#define S_KERNEL_FILE (1 << 17) /* File is in use by the kernel (eg. fs/cachefiles) */ +#define S_CACHEFILE (1 << 17) /* In use as cachefile, can't be unlinked */ /* * Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system -- 2.30.2