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vfs: add RENAME_WHITEOUT 

This adds a new RENAME_WHITEOUT flag.  This flag makes rename() create a
whiteout of source.  The whiteout creation is atomic relative to the
rename.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Miklos Szeredi 2014-10-24 00:14:37 +02:00
parent 787fb6bc96
commit 0d7a855526
2 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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fs/namei.c
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@ -4209,12 +4209,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(renameat2, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname,
bool should_retry = false;
int error;
if (flags & ~(RENAME_NOREPLACE | RENAME_EXCHANGE))
if (flags & ~(RENAME_NOREPLACE | RENAME_EXCHANGE | RENAME_WHITEOUT))
return -EINVAL;
if ((flags & RENAME_NOREPLACE) && (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
if ((flags & (RENAME_NOREPLACE | RENAME_WHITEOUT)) &&
(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
return -EINVAL;
if ((flags & RENAME_WHITEOUT) && !capable(CAP_MKNOD))
return -EPERM;
retry:
from = user_path_parent(olddfd, oldname, &oldnd, lookup_flags);
if (IS_ERR(from)) {

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include/uapi/linux/fs.h
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@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
#define RENAME_NOREPLACE (1 << 0) /* Don't overwrite target */
#define RENAME_EXCHANGE (1 << 1) /* Exchange source and dest */
#define RENAME_WHITEOUT (1 << 2) /* Whiteout source */
struct fstrim_range {
__u64 start;