From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch adds a optional struct configfs_item_operations->check_link() check called in fs/configfs/symlink.c:configfs_unlink() that can be used by configfs consumers to check for an explict struct config_group dependence with active symlink and fail with -EPERM before the unlink(2) syscall is allowed to occur. Currently without this patch, there is not a method that a consumer can tell configfs_unlink() that it needs to fail for this particular case. Allowing ->check_link() to propigate up the errno to VFS is also another option for the call, but currently for TCM using the existing -EPERM in configfs_unlink() is fine here. Note this patch is used by TCM v4 generic configfs fabric module infrastructure to allow explict Initiator Port MappedLUNs symlinks to create a dependency for the fabric TPG Port LUNs living in a configfs group that is not a direct struct config_group parent. Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/configfs/symlink.c | 13 +++++++++++++ include/linux/configfs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/configfs/symlink.c b/fs/configfs/symlink.c index 0f3eb41..b8010de 100644 --- a/fs/configfs/symlink.c +++ b/fs/configfs/symlink.c @@ -205,6 +205,19 @@ int configfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) parent_item = configfs_get_config_item(dentry->d_parent); type = parent_item->ci_type; + /* + * See if the underlying struct config_item has dependent + * symlinks, and should return -EPERM here. + */ + if (type && type->ct_item_ops && + type->ct_item_ops->check_link) { + if (type->ct_item_ops->check_link(parent_item, + sl->sl_target) != 0) { + config_item_put(parent_item); + goto out; + } + } + spin_lock(&configfs_dirent_lock); list_del_init(&sd->s_sibling); spin_unlock(&configfs_dirent_lock); diff --git a/include/linux/configfs.h b/include/linux/configfs.h index ddb7a97..7c01d86 100644 --- a/include/linux/configfs.h +++ b/include/linux/configfs.h @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ struct configfs_item_operations { ssize_t (*show_attribute)(struct config_item *, struct configfs_attribute *,char *); ssize_t (*store_attribute)(struct config_item *,struct configfs_attribute *,const char *, size_t); int (*allow_link)(struct config_item *src, struct config_item *target); + int (*check_link)(struct config_item *src, struct config_item *target); int (*drop_link)(struct config_item *src, struct config_item *target); }; -- 1.7.2.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html