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authorChen Haiquan <[email protected]>2016-08-04 23:57:35 +0800
committerBrian Behlendorf <[email protected]>2016-08-11 12:06:37 -0700
commitd9c97ec08b995f1a36657accc4bbc6057645a72c (patch)
treef2262c55fe0e9a4cd656c90553f9e95d20e28000 /config/kernel-file-dentry.m4
parentd5884c3453c5de5892eaae672c5186ed02846113 (diff)
Use file_dentry and file_inode wrappers
Fix bugs due to kernel change in torvalds/linux@4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay"). This problem crashes system when use zfs as a layer of overlayfs. Signed-off-by: Chen Haiquan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Closes #4914 Closes #4935
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+dnl #
+dnl # 4.1 API change
+dnl # struct access file->f_path.dentry was replaced by accessor function
+dnl # since fix torvalds/linux@4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always
+dnl # point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").
+dnl #
+AC_DEFUN([ZFS_AC_KERNEL_FILE_DENTRY], [
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether file_dentry() is available])
+ ZFS_LINUX_TRY_COMPILE([
+ #include <linux/fs.h>
+ ],[
+ struct file *f = NULL;
+ file_dentry(f);
+ ],[
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+ AC_DEFINE(HAVE_FILE_DENTRY, 1, [file_dentry() is available])
+ ],[
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+ ])
+])