sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry
for sysfs. To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed
prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dfa3d94..555f0ff 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
{
struct bin_attribute *bin_attr;
+ inode->i_private = sysfs_get(sd);
inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysfs_aops;
inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &sysfs_backing_dev_info;
inode->i_op = &sysfs_inode_operations;
@@ -214,6 +215,22 @@
return inode;
}
+/*
+ * The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs.
+ * To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely we take a
+ * reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode. A
+ * super_operations.delete_inode() implementation is needed to drop that
+ * reference upon inode destruction.
+ */
+void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct sysfs_dirent *sd = inode->i_private;
+
+ truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+ clear_inode(inode);
+ sysfs_put(sd);
+}
+
int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name)
{
struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;