[PATCH] VFS: pass file pointer to filesystem from ftruncate()
This patch extends the iattr structure with a file pointer memeber, and adds
an ATTR_FILE validity flag for this member.
This is set if do_truncate() is invoked from ftruncate() or from
do_coredump().
The change is source and binary compatible.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 6d62267..0c89fc9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@
#define ATTR_ATTR_FLAG 1024
#define ATTR_KILL_SUID 2048
#define ATTR_KILL_SGID 4096
+#define ATTR_FILE 8192
/*
* This is the Inode Attributes structure, used for notify_change(). It
@@ -283,6 +284,13 @@
struct timespec ia_atime;
struct timespec ia_mtime;
struct timespec ia_ctime;
+
+ /*
+ * Not an attribute, but an auxilary info for filesystems wanting to
+ * implement an ftruncate() like method. NOTE: filesystem should
+ * check for (ia_valid & ATTR_FILE), and not for (ia_file != NULL).
+ */
+ struct file *ia_file;
};
/*
@@ -1288,7 +1296,7 @@
/* fs/open.c */
-extern int do_truncate(struct dentry *, loff_t start);
+extern int do_truncate(struct dentry *, loff_t start, struct file *filp);
extern long do_sys_open(const char __user *filename, int flags, int mode);
extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, int);
extern struct file * dentry_open(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, int);