vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()

Add a new inode operation i_op->dentry_open().  This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

Author: Miklos Szeredi

Documentation/filesystems/Locking

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ prototypes:
 				struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
 				umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
 	int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+	int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
 
 locking rules:
 	all may block
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ fiemap:		no
 update_time:	no
 atomic_open:	yes
 tmpfile:	no
+dentry_open:	no
 
 	Additionally, ->rmdir(), ->unlink() and ->rename() have ->i_mutex on
 victim.

Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ struct inode_operations {
 	int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
 			unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
 	int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+	int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
 };
 
 Again, all methods are called without any locks being held, unless
@@ -696,6 +697,12 @@ struct address_space_operations {
   	but instead uses bmap to find out where the blocks in the file
   	are and uses those addresses directly.
 
+  dentry_open: *WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use!* This is an
+	alternative to f_op->open(), the difference is that this method may open
+	a file not necessarily originating from the same filesystem as the one
+	i_op->open() was called on.  It may be useful for stacking filesystems
+	which want to allow native I/O directly on underlying files.
+
 
   invalidatepage: If a page has PagePrivate set, then invalidatepage
         will be called when part or all of the page is to be removed

fs/namei.c

@@ -3064,9 +3064,12 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
 	error = may_open(&nd->path, acc_mode, open_flag);
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
-	file->f_path.mnt = nd->path.mnt;
-	error = finish_open(file, nd->path.dentry, NULL, opened);
-	if (error) {
+
+	BUG_ON(*opened & FILE_OPENED); /* once it's opened, it's opened */
+	error = vfs_open(&nd->path, file, current_cred());
+	if (!error) {
+		*opened |= FILE_OPENED;
+	} else {
 		if (error == -EOPENSTALE)
 			goto stale_open;
 		goto out;

fs/open.c

@@ -823,8 +823,7 @@ struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
 	f = get_empty_filp();
 	if (!IS_ERR(f)) {
 		f->f_flags = flags;
-		f->f_path = *path;
-		error = do_dentry_open(f, NULL, cred);
+		error = vfs_open(path, f, cred);
 		if (!error) {
 			/* from now on we need fput() to dispose of f */
 			error = open_check_o_direct(f);
@@ -841,6 +840,26 @@ struct file *dentry_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dentry_open);
 
+/**
+ * vfs_open - open the file at the given path
+ * @path: path to open
+ * @filp: newly allocated file with f_flag initialized
+ * @cred: credentials to use
+ */
+int vfs_open(const struct path *path, struct file *filp,
+	     const struct cred *cred)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
+
+	if (inode->i_op->dentry_open)
+		return inode->i_op->dentry_open(path->dentry, filp, cred);
+	else {
+		filp->f_path = *path;
+		return do_dentry_open(filp, NULL, cred);
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_open);
+
 static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *op)
 {
 	int lookup_flags = 0;

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -1528,6 +1528,9 @@ struct inode_operations {
 			   umode_t create_mode, int *opened);
 	int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
 	int (*set_acl)(struct inode *, struct posix_acl *, int);
+
+	/* WARNING: probably going away soon, do not use! */
+	int (*dentry_open)(struct dentry *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
 } ____cacheline_aligned;
 
 ssize_t rw_copy_check_uvector(int type, const struct iovec __user * uvector,
@@ -2040,6 +2043,7 @@ extern struct file *file_open_name(struct filename *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
 				   const char *, int);
+extern int vfs_open(const struct path *, struct file *, const struct cred *);
 extern struct file * dentry_open(const struct path *, int, const struct cred *);
 extern int filp_close(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);