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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-12-21 01:52:36 +0400
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2012-12-21 02:05:41 +0400
commita02de9608595c8ef649ef03ae735b0b45e3d4396 (patch)
treeca411825ecc8a30b70d869244a7e9412d0728486 /fs/open.c
parentef778e7ae67cd426c30cad43378b908f5eb0bad5 (diff)
downloadlinux-a02de9608595c8ef649ef03ae735b0b45e3d4396.tar.xz
VFS: Make more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles
Make a more complete truncate operation available to CacheFiles (including security checks and suchlike) so that it can use this to clear invalidated cache files. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c50
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 182d8667b7bd..c819bbdab47f 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -61,33 +61,22 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs,
return ret;
}
-static long do_sys_truncate(const char __user *pathname, loff_t length)
+long vfs_truncate(struct path *path, loff_t length)
{
- struct path path;
struct inode *inode;
- int error;
-
- error = -EINVAL;
- if (length < 0) /* sorry, but loff_t says... */
- goto out;
+ long error;
- error = user_path(pathname, &path);
- if (error)
- goto out;
- inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
+ inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
/* For directories it's -EISDIR, for other non-regulars - -EINVAL */
- error = -EISDIR;
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
- goto dput_and_out;
-
- error = -EINVAL;
+ return -EISDIR;
if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
- goto dput_and_out;
+ return -EINVAL;
- error = mnt_want_write(path.mnt);
+ error = mnt_want_write(path->mnt);
if (error)
- goto dput_and_out;
+ goto out;
error = inode_permission(inode, MAY_WRITE);
if (error)
@@ -111,19 +100,34 @@ static long do_sys_truncate(const char __user *pathname, loff_t length)
error = locks_verify_truncate(inode, NULL, length);
if (!error)
- error = security_path_truncate(&path);
+ error = security_path_truncate(path);
if (!error)
- error = do_truncate(path.dentry, length, 0, NULL);
+ error = do_truncate(path->dentry, length, 0, NULL);
put_write_and_out:
put_write_access(inode);
mnt_drop_write_and_out:
- mnt_drop_write(path.mnt);
-dput_and_out:
- path_put(&path);
+ mnt_drop_write(path->mnt);
out:
return error;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_truncate);
+
+static long do_sys_truncate(const char __user *pathname, loff_t length)
+{
+ struct path path;
+ int error;
+
+ if (length < 0) /* sorry, but loff_t says... */
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ error = user_path(pathname, &path);
+ if (!error) {
+ error = vfs_truncate(&path, length);
+ path_put(&path);
+ }
+ return error;
+}
SYSCALL_DEFINE2(truncate, const char __user *, path, long, length)
{