switch atomic_open() and lookup_open() to returning 0 in all success cases
caller can tell "opened" from "open it yourself" by looking at ->f_mode.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index e213e7b..8311dce 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3027,9 +3027,9 @@ static int may_o_create(const struct path *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t m
* Returns 0 if successful. The file will have been created and attached to
* @file by the filesystem calling finish_open().
*
- * Returns 1 if the file was looked up only or didn't need creating. The
- * caller will need to perform the open themselves. @path will have been
- * updated to point to the new dentry. This may be negative.
+ * If the file was looked up only or didn't need creating, FMODE_OPENED won't
+ * be set. The caller will need to perform the open themselves. @path will
+ * have been updated to point to the new dentry. This may be negative.
*
* Returns an error code otherwise.
*/
@@ -3082,7 +3082,7 @@ static int atomic_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry,
} else {
path->dentry = dentry;
path->mnt = nd->path.mnt;
- return 1;
+ return 0;
}
}
}
@@ -3093,17 +3093,17 @@ static int atomic_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry,
/*
* Look up and maybe create and open the last component.
*
- * Must be called with i_mutex held on parent.
+ * Must be called with parent locked (exclusive in O_CREAT case).
*
- * Returns 0 if the file was successfully atomically created (if necessary) and
- * opened. In this case the file will be returned attached to @file.
+ * Returns 0 on success, that is, if
+ * the file was successfully atomically created (if necessary) and opened, or
+ * the file was not completely opened at this time, though lookups and
+ * creations were performed.
+ * These case are distinguished by presence of FMODE_OPENED on file->f_mode.
+ * In the latter case dentry returned in @path might be negative if O_CREAT
+ * hadn't been specified.
*
- * Returns 1 if the file was not completely opened at this time, though lookups
- * and creations will have been performed and the dentry returned in @path will
- * be positive upon return if O_CREAT was specified. If O_CREAT wasn't
- * specified then a negative dentry may be returned.
- *
- * An error code is returned otherwise.
+ * An error code is returned on failure.
*/
static int lookup_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
struct file *file,
@@ -3225,7 +3225,7 @@ static int lookup_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *path,
out_no_open:
path->dentry = dentry;
path->mnt = nd->path.mnt;
- return 1;
+ return 0;
out_dput:
dput(dentry);
@@ -3308,10 +3308,10 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd,
else
inode_unlock_shared(dir->d_inode);
- if (error <= 0) {
- if (error)
- goto out;
+ if (error)
+ goto out;
+ if (file->f_mode & FMODE_OPENED) {
if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_CREATED) ||
!S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode))
will_truncate = false;
