Re: Yet another pipe related oops.

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:44:36PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I guess you are right, it will not.  I guess we need to do what
> > > character devices do and have an "intermediate" fops in order to protect
> > > this.  Would that work?
> > 
> > You mean, with reassigning ->f_op in ->open()?  That'll work, as long as
> > we have exclusion between removal and fetching the sucker in primary
> > ->open()...  Where would you prefer to stash fops?
> 
> Ick, that's not going to work as the current api just uses a fops and
> debugfs doesn't keep anything else hanging around that referes to
> something "before" that, like 'struct cdev' does.

Er?  How about just sticking it into dentry->d_fsdata and letting
debugfs_remove() zero that out?  What am I missing here?
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