In the common case we can just use the real file cached in
file->private_data. There are two exceptions:
1) File has been copied up since open: in this unlikely corner case just
use a throwaway real file for the operation. If ever this becomes a
perfomance problem (very unlikely, since overlayfs has been doing most fine
without correctly handling this case at all), then we can deal with that by
updating the cached real file.
2) File's f_flags have changed since open: no need to reopen the cached
real file, we can just change the flags there as well.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Implement file operations on a regular overlay file. The underlying file
is opened separately and cached in ->private_data.
It might be worth making an exception for such files when accounting in
nr_file to confirm to userspace expectations. We are only adding a small
overhead (248bytes for the struct file) since the real inode and dentry are
pinned by overlayfs anyway.
This patch doesn't have any effect, since the vfs will use d_real() to find
the real underlying file to open. The patch at the end of the series will
actually enable this functionality.
AV: make it use open_with_fake_path(), don't mess with override_creds
SzM: still need to mess with override_creds() until no fs uses
current_cred() in their open method.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
