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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-07-21 10:07:25 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-07-21 10:07:25 -0700
commit90125edbc49ec58b9101c4271bb1d87b04a4620f (patch)
tree068353d4234435b17ade687b50a5d5015bdf1ad9 /fs/kernfs
parent0a8adf584759cbcbce5d88d419db01a8d0373abf (diff)
parent9a3c4145af32125c5ee39c0272662b47307a8323 (diff)
downloadlinux-90125edbc49ec58b9101c4271bb1d87b04a4620f.tar.bz2
Merge 3.16-rc6 into driver-core-next
We want the platform changes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/kernfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/kernfs/mount.c30
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/mount.c b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
index d171b98a6cdd..f973ae9b05f1 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
@@ -211,6 +211,36 @@ void kernfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
kernfs_put(root_kn);
}
+/**
+ * kernfs_pin_sb: try to pin the superblock associated with a kernfs_root
+ * @kernfs_root: the kernfs_root in question
+ * @ns: the namespace tag
+ *
+ * Pin the superblock so the superblock won't be destroyed in subsequent
+ * operations. This can be used to block ->kill_sb() which may be useful
+ * for kernfs users which dynamically manage superblocks.
+ *
+ * Returns NULL if there's no superblock associated to this kernfs_root, or
+ * -EINVAL if the superblock is being freed.
+ */
+struct super_block *kernfs_pin_sb(struct kernfs_root *root, const void *ns)
+{
+ struct kernfs_super_info *info;
+ struct super_block *sb = NULL;
+
+ mutex_lock(&kernfs_mutex);
+ list_for_each_entry(info, &root->supers, node) {
+ if (info->ns == ns) {
+ sb = info->sb;
+ if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&info->sb->s_active))
+ sb = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&kernfs_mutex);
+ return sb;
+}
+
void __init kernfs_init(void)
{
kernfs_node_cache = kmem_cache_create("kernfs_node_cache",