From 13b3086d2ea483cbcae5a4236446cecc082a72cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:45:14 +0900 Subject: sysfs: add sysfs_dirent->s_parent Add sysfs_dirent->s_parent. With this patch, each sd points to and holds a reference to its parent. This allows walking sysfs tree without referencing sd->s_dentry which can go away anytime if the user doesn't control when it's deleted. sd->s_parent is initialized and parent is referenced in sysfs_attach_dirent(). Reference to parent is released when the sd is released, so as long as reference to a sd is held, s_parent can be followed. dentry walk in sysfs_readdir() is convereted to s_parent walk. This will be used to reimplement symlink such that it uses only sysfs_dirent tree. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/sysfs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/sysfs/sysfs.h') diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h index f8f49cc5c852..ce05d6fd7522 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h +++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ struct sysfs_dirent { atomic_t s_count; + struct sysfs_dirent * s_parent; struct list_head s_sibling; struct list_head s_children; void * s_element; -- cgit v1.2.1