sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes

The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry
for sysfs.  To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed
prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dfa3d94cfc7..555f0ff988d 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static void sysfs_init_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct bin_attribute *bin_attr;
 
+	inode->i_private = sysfs_get(sd);
 	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &sysfs_aops;
 	inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &sysfs_backing_dev_info;
 	inode->i_op = &sysfs_inode_operations;
@@ -214,6 +215,22 @@ struct inode * sysfs_get_inode(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 	return inode;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry for sysfs.
+ * To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed prematurely we take a
+ * reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.  A
+ * super_operations.delete_inode() implementation is needed to drop that
+ * reference upon inode destruction.
+ */
+void sysfs_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct sysfs_dirent *sd  = inode->i_private;
+
+	truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
+	clear_inode(inode);
+	sysfs_put(sd);
+}
+
 int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const char *name)
 {
 	struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;