From 4e6378f17c02560f052a0fae6e7c2fc1647d06ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:09:29 -0500 Subject: kernfs: Add support for always empty directories. commit ea015218f2f7ace2dad9cedd21ed95bdba2886d7 upstream. Add a new function kernfs_create_empty_dir that can be used to create directory that can not be modified. Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting a permanently empty directory to the vfs. Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- include/linux/kernfs.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h index 30faf797c2c3..6658ff53203e 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernfs.h +++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h @@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ enum kernfs_node_flag { KERNFS_STATIC_NAME = 0x0200, KERNFS_SUICIDAL = 0x0400, KERNFS_SUICIDED = 0x0800, + KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR = 0x1000, }; /* @flags for kernfs_create_root() */ @@ -278,6 +279,8 @@ void kernfs_destroy_root(struct kernfs_root *root); struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_dir_ns(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name, umode_t mode, void *priv, const void *ns); +struct kernfs_node *kernfs_create_empty_dir(struct kernfs_node *parent, + const char *name); struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_create_file(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name, umode_t mode, loff_t size, -- cgit v1.2.3