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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 488c3ef93601..b1c3a14f12e8 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2946,6 +2946,21 @@ extern void discard_new_inode(struct inode *); extern unsigned int get_next_ino(void); extern void evict_inodes(struct super_block *sb); +/* + * Userspace may rely on the the inode number being non-zero. For example, glibc + * simply ignores files with zero i_ino in unlink() and other places. + * + * As an additional complication, if userspace was compiled with + * _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=32 on a 64-bit kernel we'll only end up reading out the + * lower 32 bits, so we need to check that those aren't zero explicitly. With + * _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, this may cause some harmless false-negatives, but + * better safe than sorry. + */ +static inline bool is_zero_ino(ino_t ino) +{ + return (u32)ino == 0; +} + extern void __iget(struct inode * inode); extern void iget_failed(struct inode *); extern void clear_inode(struct inode *); |