Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index e3869098163..bc4b06b3160 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -900,6 +900,7 @@ defined:
 
 struct dentry_operations {
 	int (*d_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
+	int (*d_weak_revalidate)(struct dentry *, unsigned int);
 	int (*d_hash)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
 			struct qstr *);
 	int (*d_compare)(const struct dentry *, const struct inode *,
@@ -915,8 +916,13 @@ struct dentry_operations {
 
   d_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a dentry. This
 	is called whenever a name look-up finds a dentry in the
-	dcache. Most filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their
-	dentries in the dcache are valid
+	dcache. Most local filesystems leave this as NULL, because all their
+	dentries in the dcache are valid. Network filesystems are different
+	since things can change on the server without the client necessarily
+	being aware of it.
+
+	This function should return a positive value if the dentry is still
+	valid, and zero or a negative error code if it isn't.
 
 	d_revalidate may be called in rcu-walk mode (flags & LOOKUP_RCU).
 	If in rcu-walk mode, the filesystem must revalidate the dentry without
@@ -927,6 +933,20 @@ struct dentry_operations {
 	If a situation is encountered that rcu-walk cannot handle, return
 	-ECHILD and it will be called again in ref-walk mode.
 
+ d_weak_revalidate: called when the VFS needs to revalidate a "jumped" dentry.
+	This is called when a path-walk ends at dentry that was not acquired by
+	doing a lookup in the parent directory. This includes "/", "." and "..",
+	as well as procfs-style symlinks and mountpoint traversal.
+
+	In this case, we are less concerned with whether the dentry is still
+	fully correct, but rather that the inode is still valid. As with
+	d_revalidate, most local filesystems will set this to NULL since their
+	dcache entries are always valid.
+
+	This function has the same return code semantics as d_revalidate.
+
+	d_weak_revalidate is only called after leaving rcu-walk mode.
+
   d_hash: called when the VFS adds a dentry to the hash table. The first
 	dentry passed to d_hash is the parent directory that the name is
 	to be hashed into. The inode is the dentry's inode.