Hi Abhijit, On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Abhijit Pawar <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi list, > It seems that the support for get_sb function is removed from kernel 2.6.39 > onwards. My code which is working till 2.6.38 series is failing with new > kernels. > > The function "get_sb()" is still present in security/inode.c in kernel 2.6.39. Only the function pointer of get_sb() has been removed from struct file_system_type in /include/linux/fs.h. I tried finding out but there isnt anything mentioned. So if this function > itself is removed then how kernel is going to find out the superblock and > use it? > > Are we supposed to use the mount function provided? This is what i got from > one of the kernel patch email. > > Yes , you are supposed to use mount function. visit the following link : http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.39/security/inode.c#L144<http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.39/security/inode.c%23L144> +[mandatory] > + ->get_sb() is gone. Switch to use of ->mount(). Typically it's just > +a matter of switching from calling get_sb_... to mount_... and changing the > +function type. If you were doing it manually, just switch from setting > ->mnt_root > +to some pointer to returning that pointer. On errors return ERR_PTR(...). > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt > b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt > > > It looks like there are other changes related to Pages are also done. > > > Regards, > Abhijit Pawar > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > -- Regards, Kashish
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