Partial rewrite.
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1 /*
2 * linux/fs/bad_inode.c
4 * Copyright (C) 1997, Stephen Tweedie
6 * Provide stub functions for unreadable inodes
7 */
9 #include <linux/fs.h>
10 #include <linux/stat.h>
11 #include <linux/time.h>
12 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
15 * The follow_link operation is special: it must behave as a no-op
16 * so that a bad root inode can at least be unmounted. To do this
17 * we must dput() the base and return the dentry with a dget().
19 static int bad_follow_link(struct dentry *dent, struct nameidata *nd)
21 return vfs_follow_link(nd, ERR_PTR(-EIO));
24 static int return_EIO(void)
26 return -EIO;
29 #define EIO_ERROR ((void *) (return_EIO))
31 static struct file_operations bad_file_ops =
33 .llseek = EIO_ERROR,
34 .read = EIO_ERROR,
35 .write = EIO_ERROR,
36 .readdir = EIO_ERROR,
37 .poll = EIO_ERROR,
38 .ioctl = EIO_ERROR,
39 .mmap = EIO_ERROR,
40 .open = EIO_ERROR,
41 .flush = EIO_ERROR,
42 .release = EIO_ERROR,
43 .fsync = EIO_ERROR,
44 .fasync = EIO_ERROR,
45 .lock = EIO_ERROR,
48 struct inode_operations bad_inode_ops =
50 .create = EIO_ERROR,
51 .lookup = EIO_ERROR,
52 .link = EIO_ERROR,
53 .unlink = EIO_ERROR,
54 .symlink = EIO_ERROR,
55 .mkdir = EIO_ERROR,
56 .rmdir = EIO_ERROR,
57 .mknod = EIO_ERROR,
58 .rename = EIO_ERROR,
59 .readlink = EIO_ERROR,
60 .follow_link = bad_follow_link,
61 .truncate = EIO_ERROR,
62 .permission = EIO_ERROR,
63 .getattr = EIO_ERROR,
68 * When a filesystem is unable to read an inode due to an I/O error in
69 * its read_inode() function, it can call make_bad_inode() to return a
70 * set of stubs which will return EIO errors as required.
72 * We only need to do limited initialisation: all other fields are
73 * preinitialised to zero automatically.
76 /**
77 * make_bad_inode - mark an inode bad due to an I/O error
78 * @inode: Inode to mark bad
80 * When an inode cannot be read due to a media or remote network
81 * failure this function makes the inode "bad" and causes I/O operations
82 * on it to fail from this point on.
85 void make_bad_inode(struct inode * inode)
87 remove_inode_hash(inode);
89 inode->i_mode = S_IFREG;
90 inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
91 inode->i_op = &bad_inode_ops;
92 inode->i_fop = &bad_file_ops;
96 * This tests whether an inode has been flagged as bad. The test uses
97 * &bad_inode_ops to cover the case of invalidated inodes as well as
98 * those created by make_bad_inode() above.
102 * is_bad_inode - is an inode errored
103 * @inode: inode to test
105 * Returns true if the inode in question has been marked as bad.
108 int is_bad_inode(struct inode * inode)
110 return (inode->i_op == &bad_inode_ops);