[PATCH 09/11] vfs, fscache: Add an IS_KERNEL_FILE() macro for the S_KERNEL_FILE flag
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Tue Jan 18 21:20:11 PST 2022
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 05:40:14PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 01:54:54PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> > > Add an IS_KERNEL_FILE() macro to test the S_KERNEL_FILE inode flag as is
> > > common practice for the other inode flags[1].
> >
> > Please fix the flag to have a sensible name first, as the naming of the
> > flag and this new helper is utterly wrong as we already discussed.
>
> And I suggested a new name, which you didn't comment on.
Again, look at the semantics of the flag: The only thing it does in the
VFS is to prevent a rmdir. So you might want to name it after that.
Or in fact drop the flag entirely. We don't have that kind of
protection for other in-kernel file use or important userspace daemons
either. I can't see why cachefiles is the magic snowflake here that
suddenly needs semantics no one else has.
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