Patch "take anon inode allocation to libfs.c" has been added to the 3.12-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    take anon inode allocation to libfs.c

to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     take-anon-inode-allocation-to-libfs.c.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 6987843ff7e836ea65b554905aec34d2fad05c94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 22:35:11 -0400
Subject: take anon inode allocation to libfs.c

From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6987843ff7e836ea65b554905aec34d2fad05c94 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/anon_inodes.c   |   50 ++------------------------------------------------
 fs/libfs.c         |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/fs.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 
 static struct vfsmount *anon_inode_mnt __read_mostly;
 static struct inode *anon_inode_inode;
-static const struct file_operations anon_inode_fops;
 
 /*
  * anon_inodefs_dname() is called from d_path().
@@ -39,51 +38,6 @@ static const struct dentry_operations an
 	.d_dname	= anon_inodefs_dname,
 };
 
-/*
- * nop .set_page_dirty method so that people can use .page_mkwrite on
- * anon inodes.
- */
-static int anon_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
-{
-	return 0;
-};
-
-static const struct address_space_operations anon_aops = {
-	.set_page_dirty = anon_set_page_dirty,
-};
-
-/*
- * A single inode exists for all anon_inode files. Contrary to pipes,
- * anon_inode inodes have no associated per-instance data, so we need
- * only allocate one of them.
- */
-static struct inode *anon_inode_mkinode(struct super_block *s)
-{
-	struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(s);
-
-	if (!inode)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
-	inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
-	inode->i_fop = &anon_inode_fops;
-
-	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &anon_aops;
-
-	/*
-	 * Mark the inode dirty from the very beginning,
-	 * that way it will never be moved to the dirty
-	 * list because mark_inode_dirty() will think
-	 * that it already _is_ on the dirty list.
-	 */
-	inode->i_state = I_DIRTY;
-	inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
-	inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
-	inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
-	inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
-	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
-	return inode;
-}
-
 static struct dentry *anon_inodefs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 				int flags, const char *dev_name, void *data)
 {
@@ -92,7 +46,7 @@ static struct dentry *anon_inodefs_mount
 			&anon_inodefs_dentry_operations, ANON_INODE_FS_MAGIC);
 	if (!IS_ERR(root)) {
 		struct super_block *s = root->d_sb;
-		anon_inode_inode = anon_inode_mkinode(s);
+		anon_inode_inode = alloc_anon_inode(s);
 		if (IS_ERR(anon_inode_inode)) {
 			dput(root);
 			deactivate_locked_super(s);
@@ -134,7 +88,7 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile_private(
 	if (fops->owner && !try_module_get(fops->owner))
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
-	inode = anon_inode_mkinode(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb);
+	inode = alloc_anon_inode(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb);
 	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		goto err_module;
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -993,3 +993,46 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_open);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_release);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_read);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(simple_attr_write);
+
+/*
+ * nop .set_page_dirty method so that people can use .page_mkwrite on
+ * anon inodes.
+ */
+static int anon_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+{
+	return 0;
+};
+
+/*
+ * A single inode exists for all anon_inode files. Contrary to pipes,
+ * anon_inode inodes have no associated per-instance data, so we need
+ * only allocate one of them.
+ */
+struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s)
+{
+	static const struct address_space_operations anon_aops = {
+		.set_page_dirty = anon_set_page_dirty,
+	};
+	struct inode *inode = new_inode_pseudo(s);
+
+	if (!inode)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
+	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &anon_aops;
+
+	/*
+	 * Mark the inode dirty from the very beginning,
+	 * that way it will never be moved to the dirty
+	 * list because mark_inode_dirty() will think
+	 * that it already _is_ on the dirty list.
+	 */
+	inode->i_state = I_DIRTY;
+	inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
+	inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
+	inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
+	inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;
+	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+	return inode;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_anon_inode);
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2562,6 +2562,7 @@ extern int simple_write_begin(struct fil
 extern int simple_write_end(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
 			loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
 			struct page *page, void *fsdata);
+extern struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *);
 
 extern struct dentry *simple_lookup(struct inode *, struct dentry *, unsigned int flags);
 extern ssize_t generic_read_dir(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.12/rework-aio-migrate-pages-to-use-aio-fs.patch
queue-3.12/aio-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
queue-3.12/take-anon-inode-allocation-to-libfs.c.patch
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