From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 01:25:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E950CD52-73DC-404C-A84A-6027CAF7F6E6@dilger.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120202212400.GR23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On 2012-02-02, at 2:24 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> FWIW, there's something we really should've done a long time ago: putting
> that limit into sb->s_max_links. With 0 meaning "leave all checks to
> ->link/->mkdir/->rename". Something like the following would make a
> reasonable start - just the conversion of obvious cases. As the next
> step I'd probably initialize it as ~0U instead of 0 and let the filesystems
> that want something trickier (reiserfs, ext4, gfs2, ocfs2) explicitly set
> it to 0 in their foo_fill_super(). That would take care of a bunch of cases
> where we forgot to do those checks (ubifs, hfsplus, jffs2, ramfs, etc.) and
> it's probably a saner default anyway.
This would also give userspace some hope of pathconf(path, _PC_LINK_MAX)
returning the actual value from the filesystem, instead of hard-coding
this into glibc itself based on the statfs-returned f_type magic value.
Cheers, Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-30 21:56 sysfs regression: wrong link counts Jiri Slaby
2012-01-30 22:06 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:10 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:27 ` Greg KH
2012-01-30 22:43 ` Al Viro
2012-01-30 22:56 ` Al Viro
2012-01-31 1:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 10:48 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 12:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-31 19:18 ` Al Viro
2012-02-01 5:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:21 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 22:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-01 22:31 ` Dave Jones
2012-02-01 22:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-02-01 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-01 23:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-02 1:22 ` Al Viro
2012-02-02 21:24 ` [RFC] killing boilerplate checks in ->link/->mkdir/->rename Al Viro
2012-02-02 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 1:16 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 1:45 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 2:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-02-03 14:57 ` Chris Mason
2012-02-03 17:08 ` Al Viro
2012-02-03 19:34 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 8:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 13:56 ` Al Viro
2012-02-06 17:05 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 17:11 ` Al Viro
2012-02-07 7:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-02-06 22:49 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-03 8:25 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2012-02-03 17:03 ` Al Viro
2012-02-04 7:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2012-03-05 13:30 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Optionally count subdirectories to support buggy applications Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 16:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-05 16:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-08 22:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 21:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] sysfs: Maintain usable nlink directory counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-08 21:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] sysfs: Remove SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED and use sd->s_nlink == 0 instead Eric W. Biederman
2012-03-09 3:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-03-08 22:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] sysfs: Compact sysfs_dirent s_flags into a byte Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-03-09 2:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 3:45 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 11:54 ` Alan Cox
2012-01-30 22:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 10:41 ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 10:52 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:13 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 11:17 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 11:58 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 14:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:40 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Update the name hash when renaming sysfs entries Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-31 14:41 ` Jiri Slaby
2012-01-31 14:55 ` Greg KH
2012-02-04 2:14 ` network regression: cannot rename netdev twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-06 20:03 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 2:00 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-02-08 3:50 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 6:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 10:57 ` Kay Sievers
2012-02-08 20:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2012-02-08 20:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-02-08 23:48 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-31 1:32 ` sysfs regression: wrong link counts Eric W. Biederman
2012-02-01 18:29 ` Maciej Rutecki
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