Giving the O_COW flag to open() will return a special error, if
IS_COW(inode) and write permissions are expressed or implied. COW-aware
applications may set this flag and deal with this error according to
some user defined policy. This will not change the semantics of any
existing application or affect any kernel user of open_namei(); nor does
it affect future applications unless they use O_COW. Filesystem level
code is unimplemented except for an ext2 example.
Signed-off-by: Carl Spalletta <[email protected]>
---
fs/namei.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++
include/asm-generic/errno.h | 2 ++
include/linux/ext2_fs.h | 1 +
fs/ext2/inode.c | 2 ++
5 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/namei.c 2006-06-07 11:18:15.000000000 -0400
+++ b/fs/namei.c 2006-06-06 13:59:41.000000000 -0400
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int
*/
if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
return -EACCES;
+ /*
+ * COW-aware applications must set their own policy for this error
+ */
+ if (mask & MAY_COW)
+ return -ECOW;
}
@@ -1485,6 +1490,12 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
if (!inode)
return -ENOENT;
+ /*
+ * Cleaner, and simplifies test in permission()
+ */
+ if(!(IS_COW(inode)))
+ acc_mode &= ~MAY_COW;
+
if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
return -ELOOP;
@@ -1583,6 +1594,12 @@ int open_namei(int dfd, const char *path
if (flag & O_TRUNC)
acc_mode |= MAY_WRITE;
+ /*
+ * -ECOW will be propagated back to filp_open if MAY_WRITE && IS_COW
+ */
+ if (flag & O_COW)
+ acc_mode |= MAY_COW;
+
/* Allow the LSM permission hook to distinguish append
access from general write access. */
if (flag & O_APPEND)
--- a/include/linux/fs.h 2006-06-07 11:19:08.000000000 -0400
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h 2006-06-06 13:16:34.000000000 -0400
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
#define MAY_WRITE 2
#define MAY_READ 4
#define MAY_APPEND 8
+#define MAY_COW 16
#define FMODE_READ 1
#define FMODE_WRITE 2
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
#define S_NOCMTIME 128 /* Do not update file c/mtime */
#define S_SWAPFILE 256 /* Do not truncate: swapon got its bmaps */
#define S_PRIVATE 512 /* Inode is fs-internal */
+#define S_COW 1024 /* open will fail if MAY_COW && MAY_WRITE */
/*
* Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system
@@ -167,6 +169,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
#define IS_NOCMTIME(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_NOCMTIME)
#define IS_SWAPFILE(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_SWAPFILE)
#define IS_PRIVATE(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_PRIVATE)
+#define IS_COW(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_COW)
/* the read-only stuff doesn't really belong here, but any other place is
probably as bad and I don't want to create yet another include file. */
--- a/include/asm-generic/errno.h 2006-06-07 11:19:09.000000000 -0400
+++ b/include/asm-generic/errno.h 2006-06-06 12:35:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -106,4 +106,6 @@
#define EOWNERDEAD 130 /* Owner died */
#define ENOTRECOVERABLE 131 /* State not recoverable */
+#define ECOW 132 /* COW file opened with write permissions */
+
#endif
--- a/include/linux/ext2_fs.h 2006-06-07 11:19:11.000000000 -0400
+++ b/include/linux/ext2_fs.h 2006-06-06 13:26:38.000000000 -0400
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ struct ext2_group_desc
#define EXT2_NOTAIL_FL 0x00008000 /* file tail should not be merged */
#define EXT2_DIRSYNC_FL 0x00010000 /* dirsync behaviour (directories only) */
#define EXT2_TOPDIR_FL 0x00020000 /* Top of directory hierarchies*/
+#define EXT2_COW_FL 0x00040000 /* Hint to COW-aware applications */
#define EXT2_RESERVED_FL 0x80000000 /* reserved for ext2 lib */
#define EXT2_FL_USER_VISIBLE 0x0003DFFF /* User visible flags */
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c 2006-06-07 11:19:12.000000000 -0400
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c 2006-06-06 13:32:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -1065,6 +1065,8 @@ void ext2_set_inode_flags(struct inode *
inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME;
if (flags & EXT2_DIRSYNC_FL)
inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC;
+ if (flags & EXT2_COW_FL)
+ inode->i_flags |= S_COW;
}
void ext2_read_inode (struct inode * inode)
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