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Commit 1bd9c4e4 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells
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vfs, cachefiles: Mark a backing file in use with an inode flag



Use an inode flag, S_KERNEL_FILE, to mark that a backing file is in use by
the kernel to prevent cachefiles or other kernel services from interfering
with that file.

Alter rmdir to reject attempts to remove a directory marked with this flag.
This is used by cachefiles to prevent cachefilesd from removing them.

Using S_SWAPFILE instead isn't really viable as that has other effects in
the I/O paths.

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ver #3:
 - Check for the object pointer being NULL in the tracepoints rather than
   the caller.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819630256.215744.4815885535039369574.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906931596.143852.8642051223094013028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967141000.1823006.12920680657559677789.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021541207.640689.564689725898537127.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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