alistair23-linux/fs/nilfs2/cpfile.h
Ryusuke Konishi 003ff182fd 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>
2009-06-10 23:41:11 +09:00

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/*
* cpfile.h - NILFS checkpoint file.
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*
* Written by Koji Sato <koji@osrg.net>.
*/
#ifndef _NILFS_CPFILE_H
#define _NILFS_CPFILE_H
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/buffer_head.h>
#include <linux/nilfs2_fs.h>
#define NILFS_CPFILE_GFP NILFS_MDT_GFP
int nilfs_cpfile_get_checkpoint(struct inode *, __u64, int,
struct nilfs_checkpoint **,
struct buffer_head **);
void nilfs_cpfile_put_checkpoint(struct inode *, __u64, struct buffer_head *);
int nilfs_cpfile_delete_checkpoints(struct inode *, __u64, __u64);
int nilfs_cpfile_delete_checkpoint(struct inode *, __u64);
int nilfs_cpfile_change_cpmode(struct inode *, __u64, int);
int nilfs_cpfile_is_snapshot(struct inode *, __u64);
int nilfs_cpfile_get_stat(struct inode *, struct nilfs_cpstat *);
ssize_t nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo(struct inode *, __u64 *, int, void *, unsigned,
size_t);
#endif /* _NILFS_CPFILE_H */