vfs: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context
[AV - unfuck kern_mount_data(); we want non-NULL ->mnt_ns on long-living
mounts]
[AV - reordering fs/namespace.c is badly overdue, but let's keep it
separate from that series]
[AV - drop simple_pin_fs() change]
[AV - clean vfs_kern_mount() failure exits up]
Implement a filesystem context concept to be used during superblock
creation for mount and superblock reconfiguration for remount.
The mounting procedure then becomes:
(1) Allocate new fs_context context.
(2) Configure the context.
(3) Create superblock.
(4) Query the superblock.
(5) Create a mount for the superblock.
(6) Destroy the context.
Rather than calling fs_type->mount(), an fs_context struct is created and
fs_type->init_fs_context() is called to set it up. Pointers exist for the
filesystem and LSM to hang their private data off.
A set of operations has to be set by ->init_fs_context() to provide
freeing, duplication, option parsing, binary data parsing, validation,
mounting and superblock filling.
Legacy filesystems are supported by the provision of a set of legacy
fs_context operations that build up a list of mount options and then invoke
fs_type->mount() from within the fs_context ->get_tree() operation. This
allows all filesystems to be accessed using fs_context.
It should be noted that, whilst this patch adds a lot of lines of code,
there is quite a bit of duplication with existing code that can be
eliminated should all filesystems be converted over.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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