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authorRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>2009-05-12 03:58:47 +0900
committerRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>2009-06-10 23:41:11 +0900
commit003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082 (patch)
treed949fa673353767d8854355987e49d82821935f6 /fs/nilfs2/dat.h
parent258ef67e246fd548e7ad91c23004ad157c03cce5 (diff)
nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl
Nilfs has some ioctl commands to read out metadata from meta data files: - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO for checkpoint file, - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO for segment usage file, and - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO for Disk Address Transalation (DAT) file, respectively. Every routine on these metadata files is implemented so that it allows future expansion of on-disk format. But, the above ioctl commands do not support expansion even though nilfs_argv structure can handle arbitrary size for data exchanged via ioctl. This allows future expansion of the following structures which give basic format of the "get information" ioctls: - struct nilfs_cpinfo - struct nilfs_suinfo - struct nilfs_vinfo So, this introduces forward compatility of such ioctl commands. In this patch, a sanity check in nilfs_ioctl_get_info() function is changed to accept larger data structure [1], and metadata read routines are rewritten so that they become compatible for larger structures; the routines will just ignore the remaining fields which the current version of nilfs doesn't know. [1] The ioctl function already has another upper limit (PAGE_SIZE against a structure, which appears in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy function), and this will not cause security problem. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nilfs2/dat.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/nilfs2/dat.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/dat.h b/fs/nilfs2/dat.h
index d9560654a4b7..d328b81eead4 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/dat.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/dat.h
@@ -47,6 +47,6 @@ void nilfs_dat_abort_end(struct inode *, struct nilfs_palloc_req *);
int nilfs_dat_mark_dirty(struct inode *, __u64);
int nilfs_dat_freev(struct inode *, __u64 *, size_t);
int nilfs_dat_move(struct inode *, __u64, sector_t);
-ssize_t nilfs_dat_get_vinfo(struct inode *, struct nilfs_vinfo *, size_t);
+ssize_t nilfs_dat_get_vinfo(struct inode *, void *, unsigned, size_t);
#endif /* _NILFS_DAT_H */