[PATCH v7 2/6] kernfs: add a revision to identify directory node changes

From: Ian Kent
Date: Tue Jun 15 2021 - 06:26:25 EST


Add a revision counter to kernfs directory nodes so it can be used
to detect if a directory node has changed during negative dentry
revalidation.

There's an assumption that sizeof(unsigned long) <= sizeof(pointer)
on all architectures and as far as I know that assumption holds.

So adding a revision counter to the struct kernfs_elem_dir variant of
the kernfs_node type union won't increase the size of the kernfs_node
struct. This is because struct kernfs_elem_dir is at least
sizeof(pointer) smaller than the largest union variant. It's tempting
to make the revision counter a u64 but that would increase the size of
kernfs_node on archs where sizeof(pointer) is smaller than the revision
counter.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 3 +++
fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/kernfs.h | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
index 33166ec90a112..48704c5b6a072 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ static int kernfs_link_sibling(struct kernfs_node *kn)
/* successfully added, account subdir number */
if (kernfs_type(kn) == KERNFS_DIR)
kn->parent->dir.subdirs++;
+ kernfs_inc_rev(kn->parent);

return 0;
}
@@ -394,6 +395,7 @@ static bool kernfs_unlink_sibling(struct kernfs_node *kn)

if (kernfs_type(kn) == KERNFS_DIR)
kn->parent->dir.subdirs--;
+ kernfs_inc_rev(kn->parent);

rb_erase(&kn->rb, &kn->parent->dir.children);
RB_CLEAR_NODE(&kn->rb);
@@ -1573,6 +1575,7 @@ int kernfs_rename_ns(struct kernfs_node *kn, struct kernfs_node *new_parent,
*/
kernfs_unlink_sibling(kn);
kernfs_get(new_parent);
+ kernfs_inc_rev(new_parent);

/* rename_lock protects ->parent and ->name accessors */
spin_lock_irq(&kernfs_rename_lock);
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
index ccc3b44f6306f..6a38897b4d02c 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
+++ b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
@@ -81,6 +81,25 @@ static inline struct kernfs_node *kernfs_dentry_node(struct dentry *dentry)
return d_inode(dentry)->i_private;
}

+static inline void kernfs_set_rev(struct kernfs_node *parent,
+ struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ dentry->d_time = parent->dir.rev;
+}
+
+static inline void kernfs_inc_rev(struct kernfs_node *parent)
+{
+ parent->dir.rev++;
+}
+
+static inline bool kernfs_dir_changed(struct kernfs_node *parent,
+ struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ if (parent->dir.rev != dentry->d_time)
+ return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
extern const struct super_operations kernfs_sops;
extern struct kmem_cache *kernfs_node_cache, *kernfs_iattrs_cache;

diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 9e8ca8743c268..d68b4ad095737 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -98,6 +98,11 @@ struct kernfs_elem_dir {
* better directly in kernfs_node but is here to save space.
*/
struct kernfs_root *root;
+ /*
+ * Monotonic revision counter, used to identify if a directory
+ * node has changed during negative dentry revalidation.
+ */
+ unsigned long rev;
};

struct kernfs_elem_symlink {