From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: freeman.zhang1992@gmail.com (freeman)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:10:59 +0800
Subject: [Help] How to Replace File Operations in File System?
Message-ID: <52FC29B3.10201@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org

Hi list,

I am a newbie in linux kernel programming. Recently I got stuck in a
problem when doing
practice in file system programming. I hope this list is the right place
I can turn to.

I want to replace some file operations of files in a certain
directory,so that data can be
decrypted/encrypted through read/write system call. So I:

#1: Find the directory inode, save its original inode operation
table,then replace
the table:

kern_path(pathname, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &target_dir_path);
lower_iops = target_dir_path.dentry->d_inode->i_op;
target_dir_path.dentry->d_inode->i_op = &my_iops;

#2: In my_iops, I mainly changed ".lookup" function like this to achive
my goal ??
replace the file operation table of all files in the directory.

static struct dentry *my_inode_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry
*dentry,
struct nameidata *nd)
{
struct dentry *ret_dentry;

ret_dentry = lower_iops->lookup(dir,dentry,nd);
if (!ret_dentry)
goto out;
ret_dentry->d_inode->i_fop = &my_fops;
out:
return ret_dentry;
}

Things turns out that replacement of inode operation table of directory
is successful
but the changes in file operations are not functional: system works as
it used to,
totally ignore my_fops!

I have no idea how to fix it. Can anybody help?
Thanks for your attention!
Regards

Freeman Zhang