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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/libfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/libfs.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index d93842d3c0a0..1247ee90253a 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ int get_sb_pseudo(struct file_system_type *fs_type, char *name, root = new_inode(s); if (!root) goto Enomem; + /* + * since this is the first inode, make it number 1. New inodes created + * after this must take care not to collide with it (by passing + * max_reserved of 1 to iunique). + */ + root->i_ino = 1; root->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR; root->i_uid = root->i_gid = 0; root->i_atime = root->i_mtime = root->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME; @@ -360,6 +366,11 @@ int simple_commit_write(struct file *file, struct page *page, return 0; } +/* + * the inodes created here are not hashed. If you use iunique to generate + * unique inode values later for this filesystem, then you must take care + * to pass it an appropriate max_reserved value to avoid collisions. + */ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, int magic, struct tree_descr *files) { struct inode *inode; @@ -376,6 +387,11 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, int magic, struct tree_descr *files inode = new_inode(s); if (!inode) return -ENOMEM; + /* + * because the root inode is 1, the files array must not contain an + * entry at index 1 + */ + inode->i_ino = 1; inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | 0755; inode->i_uid = inode->i_gid = 0; inode->i_blocks = 0; @@ -391,6 +407,13 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, int magic, struct tree_descr *files for (i = 0; !files->name || files->name[0]; i++, files++) { if (!files->name) continue; + + /* warn if it tries to conflict with the root inode */ + if (unlikely(i == 1)) + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s passed in a files array" + "with an index of 1!\n", __func__, + s->s_type->name); + dentry = d_alloc_name(root, files->name); if (!dentry) goto out; |