Re: [PATCH 09/41] whiteout: Don't return information about whiteouts to userspace

From: Valerie Aurora
Date: Wed Jan 20 2010 - 19:20:39 EST


On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 09:53:30PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <1256152779-10054-10-git-send-email-vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx>, Valerie Aurora writes:
> > From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > The userspace isn't ready for handling another filetype. Therefore this
> > patch lets readdir() and others skip over the whiteout directory entries
> > they might find.
>
> The NFSD maintainers and MLs should be CC'ed on such patches which touch
> fs/nfsd/. I'd also suggst you change the subject line of this patch to:
>
> whiteout/NFSD: don't return ...

Thanks, I made these and your other suggested changes below.

-VAL

> This patch seems fairly straightforward: it returns 0 when d_type is DT_WHT.
> As long as there's no way to create such whiteout entries (not until UM is
> used), then there's no harm in pushing such patches upstream, no?
>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/compat.c | 9 +++++++++
> > fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 5 +++++
> > fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 2 +-
> > fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c | 4 ++++
> > fs/readdir.c | 9 +++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
> > index 6d6f98f..43f6102 100644
> > --- a/fs/compat.c
> > +++ b/fs/compat.c
> > @@ -847,6 +847,9 @@ static int compat_fillonedir(void *__buf, const char *name, int namlen,
> > struct compat_old_linux_dirent __user *dirent;
> > compat_ulong_t d_ino;
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > if (buf->result)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > d_ino = ino;
> > @@ -918,6 +921,9 @@ static int compat_filldir(void *__buf, const char *name, int namlen,
> > compat_ulong_t d_ino;
> > int reclen = ALIGN(NAME_OFFSET(dirent) + namlen + 2, sizeof(compat_long_t));
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > buf->error = -EINVAL; /* only used if we fail.. */
> > if (reclen > buf->count)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > @@ -1007,6 +1013,9 @@ static int compat_filldir64(void * __buf, const char * name, int namlen, loff_t
> > int reclen = ALIGN(jj + namlen + 1, sizeof(u64));
> > u64 off;
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > buf->error = -EINVAL; /* only used if we fail.. */
> > if (reclen > buf->count)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
> > index 01d4ec1..59576d0 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
> > @@ -884,6 +884,11 @@ encode_entry(struct readdir_cd *ccd, const char *name, int namlen,
> > int elen; /* estimated entry length in words */
> > int num_entry_words = 0; /* actual number of words */
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT) {
> > + cd->common.err = nfs_ok;
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +
> > if (cd->offset) {
> > u64 offset64 = offset;
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> > index 2dcc7fe..8c25012 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
> > @@ -2263,7 +2263,7 @@ nfsd4_encode_dirent(void *ccdv, const char *name, int namlen,
> > __be32 nfserr = nfserr_toosmall;
> >
> > /* In nfsv4, "." and ".." never make it onto the wire.. */
> > - if (name && isdotent(name, namlen)) {
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT || (name && isdotent(name, namlen))) {
>
> Optimization: I would swap the order of the two conditions separated by the
> '||': the right-hand-side condition is far more likely to occur than
> d_type==DT_WHT, so you can enter the body of the 'if' more quickly for the
> common case.
>
> > cd->common.err = nfs_ok;
> > return 0;
> > }
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
> > index afd08e2..a7d622c 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
> > @@ -513,6 +513,10 @@ nfssvc_encode_entry(void *ccdv, const char *name,
> > namlen, name, offset, ino);
> > */
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT) {
> > + cd->common.err = nfs_ok;
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > if (offset > ~((u32) 0)) {
> > cd->common.err = nfserr_fbig;
> > return -EINVAL;
> > diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
> > index 7723401..3a48491 100644
> > --- a/fs/readdir.c
> > +++ b/fs/readdir.c
> > @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ static int fillonedir(void * __buf, const char * name, int namlen, loff_t offset
> > struct old_linux_dirent __user * dirent;
> > unsigned long d_ino;
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > if (buf->result)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > d_ino = ino;
> > @@ -154,6 +157,9 @@ static int filldir(void * __buf, const char * name, int namlen, loff_t offset,
> > unsigned long d_ino;
> > int reclen = ALIGN(NAME_OFFSET(dirent) + namlen + 2, sizeof(long));
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > buf->error = -EINVAL; /* only used if we fail.. */
> > if (reclen > buf->count)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > @@ -239,6 +245,9 @@ static int filldir64(void * __buf, const char * name, int namlen, loff_t offset,
> > struct getdents_callback64 * buf = (struct getdents_callback64 *) __buf;
> > int reclen = ALIGN(NAME_OFFSET(dirent) + namlen + 1, sizeof(u64));
> >
> > + if (d_type == DT_WHT)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > buf->error = -EINVAL; /* only used if we fail.. */
> > if (reclen > buf->count)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > --
> > 1.6.3.3
> >
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> Erez.
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