[PATCH 4/4] Documentation: update in-tree fs docs for new function

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Aug 27 2007 - 13:29:04 EST


This updates the VFS docs under the Documentation/ directory to describe
the new killattr inode operation.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 2 ++
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index fe26cc9..ac377aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ ata *);
ssize_t (*getxattr) (struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
+ void (*killattr) (struct dentry *, struct iattr *);

locking rules:
all may block, none have BKL
@@ -74,6 +75,7 @@ setxattr: yes
getxattr: no
listxattr: no
removexattr: yes
+killattr: yes
Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
victim.
cross-directory ->rename() has (per-superblock) ->s_vfs_rename_sem.
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 05a7b83..ca3a403 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
ssize_t (*listxattr) (struct dentry *, char *, size_t);
int (*removexattr) (struct dentry *, const char *);
void (*truncate_range)(struct inode *, loff_t, loff_t);
+ void (*killattr)(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
};

Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -447,6 +448,11 @@ otherwise noted.
truncate_range: a method provided by the underlying filesystem to truncate a
range of blocks , i.e. punch a hole somewhere in a file.

+ killattr: called by the VFS when a setuid/setgid inode is modified. This
+ allows a filesystem to override the standard behavior and handle
+ the ATTR_KILL_SUID and ATTR_KILL_SGID bits in its own way. Should
+ only be defined if the standard method for clearing setuid/setgid
+ bits is not adequate for your filesystem.

The Address Space Object
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1.5.2.1

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