docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
follow_link has been replaced by get_link() which can be
called in RCU mode.
see commit: commit 6b2553918d
("replace ->follow_link() with
new method that could stay in RCU mode")
Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210527091618.287093-8-foxhlchen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -1060,13 +1060,11 @@ filesystem cannot successfully get a reference in RCU-walk mode, it
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must return ``-ECHILD`` and ``unlazy_walk()`` will be called to return to
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REF-walk mode in which the filesystem is allowed to sleep.
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The place for all this to happen is the ``i_op->follow_link()`` inode
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method. In the present mainline code this is never actually called in
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RCU-walk mode as the rewrite is not quite complete. It is likely that
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in a future release this method will be passed an ``inode`` pointer when
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called in RCU-walk mode so it both (1) knows to be careful, and (2) has the
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validated pointer. Much like the ``i_op->permission()`` method we
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looked at previously, ``->follow_link()`` would need to be careful that
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The place for all this to happen is the ``i_op->get_link()`` inode
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method. This is called both in RCU-walk and REF-walk. In RCU-walk the
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``dentry*`` argument is NULL, ``->get_link()`` can return -ECHILD to drop out of
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RCU-walk. Much like the ``i_op->permission()`` method we
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looked at previously, ``->get_link()`` would need to be careful that
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all the data structures it references are safe to be accessed while
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holding no counted reference, only the RCU lock. Though getting a
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reference with ``->follow_link()`` is not yet done in RCU-walk mode, the
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