Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph fixes for 5.1-rc7

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 02:23:59PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:

> I took a quick look at the dcache code to see if we had something like
> that before I did this, but I guess I didn't look closely enough. Those
> routines do look nicer than my hand-rolled version.
> 
> I'll look at spinning up a patch to switch that over in the near future.

Jeff asked to put the name length in there; looking at the existing users,
it does make sense.  I propose turning struct name_snapshot into

struct name_snapshot {
        struct qstr name;
        unsigned char inline_name[DNAME_INLINE_LEN];
};

with
void take_dentry_name_snapshot(struct name_snapshot *name, struct dentry *dentry)
{
        spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
	name->name = dentry->d_name;
        if (unlikely(dname_external(dentry))) {
                struct external_name *p = external_name(dentry);
                atomic_inc(&p->u.count);
        } else {
                memcpy(name->inline_name, dentry->d_iname,
                       dentry->d_name.len + 1);
                name->name.name = name->inline_name;
        }
	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
}

and callers adjusted, initially simply by turning snapshot.name into
snapshot.name.name.  Next step: overlayfs call site becoming
        take_dentry_name_snapshot(&name, real);
        this = lookup_one_len(name.name.name, connected, name.name.len);
Next: snotify stuff switched to passing struct qstr * - fsnotify_move()
first, then fsnotify().  That one would
	* leave callers passing NULL alone
	* have the callers passing snapshot.name.name pass &snapshot.name
	* fsnotify_dirent() pass the entire &dentry->d_name, not just
dentry->d_name.name (that's dependent upon parent being held exclusive;
devpts plays fast and loose here, relying upon the lack of any kind of
renames, explicit or implicit, in that fs)
	* ditto for remaining call in fsnotify_move() (both parents
are locked in all callers, thankfully)
	* ditto for fsnotify_link()
	* kernfs callers in kernfs_notify_workfn() would grow strlen().
Next: send_to_group() and ->handle_event() instances switched to passing
struct qstr *.
Next: inotify_handle_event() doesn't need to bother with strlen().
Next: audit_update_watch() and audit_compare_dname_path() switched to
struct qstr *.  Callers in __audit_inode_child() pass the entire
&dentry->d_name.  strlen() inside audit_compare_dname_path() goes away.

Objections?