fs/bad_inode.c

/*
 *  linux/fs/bad_inode.c
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1997, Stephen Tweedie
 *
 *  Provide stub functions for unreadable inodes
 */

#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>

/*
 * The follow_link operation is special: it must behave as a no-op
 * so that a bad root inode can at least be unmounted. To do this
 * we must dput() the base and return the dentry with a dget().
 */
static int bad_follow_link(struct dentry *dent, struct nameidata *nd)
{
	return vfs_follow_link(nd, ERR_PTR(-EIO));
}

static int return_EIO(void)
{
	return -EIO;
}

#define EIO_ERROR ((void *) (return_EIO))

static struct file_operations bad_file_ops =
{
	llseek:		EIO_ERROR,
	read:		EIO_ERROR,
	write:		EIO_ERROR,
	readdir:	EIO_ERROR,
	poll:		EIO_ERROR,
	ioctl:		EIO_ERROR,
	mmap:		EIO_ERROR,
	open:		EIO_ERROR,
	flush:		EIO_ERROR,
	release:	EIO_ERROR,
	fsync:		EIO_ERROR,
	fasync:		EIO_ERROR,
	lock:		EIO_ERROR,
};

struct inode_operations bad_inode_ops =
{
	create:		EIO_ERROR,
	lookup:		EIO_ERROR,
	link:		EIO_ERROR,
	unlink:		EIO_ERROR,
	symlink:	EIO_ERROR,
	mkdir:		EIO_ERROR,
	rmdir:		EIO_ERROR,
	mknod:		EIO_ERROR,
	rename:		EIO_ERROR,
	readlink:	EIO_ERROR,
	follow_link:	bad_follow_link,
	truncate:	EIO_ERROR,
	permission:	EIO_ERROR,
	getattr:	EIO_ERROR,
};


/*
 * When a filesystem is unable to read an inode due to an I/O error in
 * its read_inode() function, it can call make_bad_inode() to return a
 * set of stubs which will return EIO errors as required. 
 *
 * We only need to do limited initialisation: all other fields are
 * preinitialised to zero automatically.
 */
 
/**
 *	make_bad_inode - mark an inode bad due to an I/O error
 *	@inode: Inode to mark bad
 *
 *	When an inode cannot be read due to a media or remote network
 *	failure this function makes the inode "bad" and causes I/O operations
 *	on it to fail from this point on.
 */
 
void make_bad_inode(struct inode * inode) 
{
	inode->i_mode = S_IFREG;
	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
	inode->i_op = &bad_inode_ops;	
	inode->i_fop = &bad_file_ops;	
}

/*
 * This tests whether an inode has been flagged as bad. The test uses
 * &bad_inode_ops to cover the case of invalidated inodes as well as
 * those created by make_bad_inode() above.
 */
 
/**
 *	is_bad_inode - is an inode errored
 *	@inode: inode to test
 *
 *	Returns true if the inode in question has been marked as bad.
 */
 
int is_bad_inode(struct inode * inode) 
{
	return (inode->i_op == &bad_inode_ops);	
}