Note that applying umask can't affect their results.  While
that affects errno in cases like
	mknod("/no_such_directory/a", 030000)
yielding -EINVAL (due to impossible mode_t) instead of
-ENOENT (due to inexistent directory), IMO that makes a lot
more sense, POSIX allows to return either and any software
that relies on getting -ENOENT instead of -EINVAL in that
case deserves everything it gets.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

releases what needs to be released after {kern,user}_path_create()
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

locking/unlocking for rcu walk taken to a couple of inline helpers
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

really convoluted test in there has grown up during struct mount
introduction; what it checks is that we'd reached the root of
mount tree.

No need to bother with lookup_one_len() here - it's an overkill

Signed-off-by Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Split inode_permission() into inode- and superblock-dependent parts.

This is aimed at unionmounts where the superblock from the upper layer has to
be checked rather than the superblock from the lower layer as the upper layer
may be writable, thus allowing an unwritable file from the lower layer to be
copied up and modified.

Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (Further development)
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Add comments describing what the directions "up" and "down" mean and ref count
handling to the VFS mount following family of functions.

Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com> (Original author)
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Add a helper that abstracts out the jump to an already parsed struct path
from ->follow_link operation from procfs.  Not only does this clean up
the code by moving the two sides of this game into a single helper, but
it also prepares for making struct nameidata private to namei.c
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Currently the non-nd_set_link based versions of ->follow_link are expected
to do a path_put(&nd->path) on failure.  This calling convention is unexpected,
undocumented and doesn't match what the nd_set_link-based instances do.

Move the path_put out of the only non-nd_set_link based ->follow_link
instance into the caller.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

all callers want the same thing, actually - a kinda-sorta analog of
kern_path_create().  I.e. they want parent vfsmount/dentry (with
->i_mutex held, to make sure the child dentry is still their child)
+ the child dentry.

Signed-off-by Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Since commit 197e37d9, the banner comment on lookup_open() no longer matches
what the function returns.  It used to return a struct file pointer or NULL and
now it returns an integer and is passed the struct file pointer it is to use
amongst its arguments.  Update the comment to reflect this.

Also add a banner comment to atomic_open().
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

all we want is a boolean flag, same as the method gets now
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

boolean "does it have to be exclusive?" flag is passed instead;
Local filesystem should just ignore it - the object is guaranteed
not to be there yet.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument.  And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

just the flags...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

since the method wrapped by it doesn't need that anymore...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Just the lookup flags.  Die, bastard, die...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Same conventions as for ->atomic_open().  Trimmed the
forest of labels a bit, while we are at it...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Just pass struct file *.  Methods are happier that way...
There's no need to return struct file * from finish_open() now,
so let it return int.  Next: saner prototypes for parts in
namei.c
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

->filp->f_path is there for purpose...
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Change of calling conventions:
old		new
NULL		1
file		0
ERR_PTR(-ve)	-ve

Caller *knows* that struct file *; no need to return it.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

make put_filp() conditional on flag set by finish_open()
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

... and let finish_open() report having opened the file via that sucker.
Next step: don't modify od->filp at all.

[AV: FILE_CREATE was already used by cifs; Miklos' fix folded]
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Perform open_check_o_direct() in a common place in do_last after opening the
file.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Move the lookup retry logic to the bottom of the function to make the normal
case simpler to read.
Reported-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Consistently use bool for boolean values in do_last().
Reported-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Reported-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

All users of open intents have been converted to use ->atomic_{open,create}.

This patch gets rid of nd->intent.open and related infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Add a new inode operation which is called on the last component of an open.
Using this the filesystem can look up, possibly create and open the file in one
atomic operation.  If it cannot perform this (e.g. the file type turned out to
be wrong) it may signal this by returning NULL instead of an open struct file
pointer.

i_op->atomic_open() is only called if the last component is negative or needs
lookup.  Handling cached positive dentries here doesn't add much value: these
can be opened using f_op->open().  If the cached file turns out to be invalid,
the open can be retried, this time using ->atomic_open() with a fresh dentry.

For now leave the old way of using open intents in lookup and revalidate in
place.  This will be removed once all the users are converted.

David Howells noticed that if ->atomic_open() opens the file but does not create
it, handle_truncate() will be called on it even if it is not a regular file.
Fix this by checking the file type in this case too.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Copy __lookup_hash() into lookup_open().  The next patch will insert the atomic
open call just before the real lookup.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Split out lookup + maybe create from do_last().  This is the part under i_mutex
protection.

The function is called lookup_open() and returns a filp even though the open
part is not used yet.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Make the slow lookup part of O_CREAT and non-O_CREAT opens common.

This allows atomic_open to be hooked into the slow lookup part.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Check O_CREAT on the slow lookup paths where necessary.  This allows the rest to
be shared with plain open.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Copy lookup_slow() into do_last().
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

no need for kludgy "set cookie to ERR_PTR(...) because we failed
before we did actual ->follow_link() and want to suppress put_link()",
no pointless check in put_link() itself.

Callers checked if follow_link() has failed anyway; might as well
break out of their loops if that happened, without bothering
to call put_link() first.

[AV: folded fixes from hch]
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

NFS optimizes away d_revalidates for last component of open.  This means that
open itself can find the dentry stale.

This patch allows the filesystem to return EOPENSTALE and the VFS will retry the
lookup on just the last component if possible.

If the lookup was done using RCU mode, including the last component, then this
is not possible since the parent dentry is lost.  In this case fall back to
non-RCU lookup.  Currently this is not used since NFS will always leave RCU
mode.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Now the post lookup code can be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens since
they are essentially the same.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

This allows this code to be shared between O_CREAT and plain opens.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>