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Commit c2b6d621 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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new primitive: discard_new_inode()



	We don't want open-by-handle picking half-set-up in-core
struct inode from e.g. mkdir() having failed halfway through.
In other words, we don't want such inodes returned by iget_locked()
on their way to extinction.  However, we can't just have them
unhashed - otherwise open-by-handle immediately *after* that would've
ended up creating a new in-core inode over the on-disk one that
is in process of being freed right under us.

	Solution: new flag (I_CREATING) set by insert_inode_locked() and
removed by unlock_new_inode() and a new primitive (discard_new_inode())
to be used by such halfway-through-setup failure exits instead of
unlock_new_inode() / iput() combinations.  That primitive unlocks new
inode, but leaves I_CREATING in place.

	iget_locked() treats finding an I_CREATING inode as failure
(-ESTALE, once we sort out the error propagation).
	insert_inode_locked() treats the same as instant -EBUSY.
	ilookup() treats those as icache miss.

[Fix by Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> folded in]

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