[PATCH] sysfs: Reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes.

[Eric W. Biederman]

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.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/sysfs/inode.c |   10 ++++++++++
 fs/sysfs/mount.c |    1 +
 fs/sysfs/sysfs.h |    1 +
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dfa3d94..dd269df 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void sysfs_init_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct inode *inode)
 {
 	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 +215,15 @@ struct inode * sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 	return inode;
 }
 
+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;
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/mount.c b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
index f3e34fd..59fcd58 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct kmem_cache *sysfs_dir_cachep;
 static const struct super_operations sysfs_ops = {
 	.statfs		= simple_statfs,
 	.drop_inode	= generic_delete_inode,
+	.delete_inode	= sysfs_delete_inode,
 };
 
 struct sysfs_dirent sysfs_root = {
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index 93c6d6b..9055d04 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static inline void __sysfs_put(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
  * inode.c
  */
 struct inode *sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
+void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode);
 int sysfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iattr);
 int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name);
 int sysfs_inode_init(void);
-- 
1.5.6.3

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