kernfs: Add support for always empty directories.

commit ea015218f2f7ace2dad9cedd21ed95bdba2886d7 upstream.

Add a new function kernfs_create_empty_dir that can be used to create
directory that can not be modified.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting a
permanently empty directory to the vfs.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/inode.c b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
index 2da8493a380b..756dd56aaf60 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
@@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ static void kernfs_init_inode(struct kernfs_node *kn, struct inode *inode)
         case KERNFS_DIR:
                 inode->i_op = &kernfs_dir_iops;
                 inode->i_fop = &kernfs_dir_fops;
+                if (kn->flags & KERNFS_EMPTY_DIR)
+                        make_empty_dir_inode(inode);
                 break;
         case KERNFS_FILE:
                 inode->i_size = kn->attr.size;