[PATCH 16 of 23] Unionfs: Handling of stale inodes

[Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>]

From: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>

Provides nicer handling of stale inodes.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dquigley@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>

---

1 file changed, 114 insertions(+)
fs/unionfs/stale_inode.c |  114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

diff -r b601a3cced0e -r 766f19339624 fs/unionfs/stale_inode.c
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/fs/unionfs/stale_inode.c	Sat Oct 07 00:46:19 2006 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+/*
+ *  Adpated from linux/fs/bad_inode.c
+ *
+ *  Copyright (C) 1997, Stephen Tweedie
+ *
+ *  Provide stub functions for "stale" inodes, a bit friendlier than the
+ *  -EIO that bad_inode.c does.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/version.h>
+
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/stat.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
+static struct address_space_operations unionfs_stale_aops;
+
+/* declarations for "sparse */
+extern struct inode_operations stale_inode_ops;
+
+/*
+ * The follow_link operation is special: it must behave as a no-op
+ * so that a stale root inode can at least be unmounted. To do this
+ * we must dput() the base and return the dentry with a dget().
+ */
+static void *stale_follow_link(struct dentry *dent, struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	return ERR_PTR(vfs_follow_link(nd, ERR_PTR(-ESTALE)));
+}
+
+static int return_ESTALE(void)
+{
+	return -ESTALE;
+}
+
+#define ESTALE_ERROR ((void *) (return_ESTALE))
+
+static struct file_operations stale_file_ops = {
+	.llseek = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.read = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.write = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.readdir = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.poll = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.ioctl = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.mmap = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.open = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.flush = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.release = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.fsync = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.fasync = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.lock = ESTALE_ERROR,
+};
+
+struct inode_operations stale_inode_ops = {
+	.create = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.lookup = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.link = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.unlink = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.symlink = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.mkdir = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.rmdir = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.mknod = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.rename = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.readlink = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.follow_link = stale_follow_link,
+	.truncate = ESTALE_ERROR,
+	.permission = ESTALE_ERROR,
+};
+
+/*
+ * When a filesystem is unable to read an inode due to an I/O error in
+ * its read_inode() function, it can call make_stale_inode() to return a
+ * set of stubs which will return ESTALE errors as required.
+ *
+ * We only need to do limited initialisation: all other fields are
+ * preinitialised to zero automatically.
+ */
+
+/**
+ *	make_stale_inode - mark an inode stale due to an I/O error
+ *	@inode: Inode to mark stale
+ *
+ *	When an inode cannot be read due to a media or remote network
+ *	failure this function makes the inode "stale" and causes I/O operations
+ *	on it to fail from this point on.
+ */
+
+void make_stale_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	inode->i_mode = S_IFREG;
+	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
+	inode->i_op = &stale_inode_ops;
+	inode->i_fop = &stale_file_ops;
+	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &unionfs_stale_aops;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This tests whether an inode has been flagged as stale. The test uses
+ * &stale_inode_ops to cover the case of invalidated inodes as well as
+ * those created by make_stale_inode() above.
+ */
+
+/**
+ *	is_stale_inode - is an inode errored
+ *	@inode: inode to test
+ *
+ *	Returns true if the inode in question has been marked as stale.
+ */
+
+int is_stale_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	return (inode->i_op == &stale_inode_ops);
+}
+


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