[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry

Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch.  That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there.  However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation.  This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 7617bb1..10020d8 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1654,9 +1654,9 @@ static ssize_t shmem_file_sendfile(struct file *in_file, loff_t *ppos,
 	return desc.error;
 }
 
-static int shmem_statfs(struct super_block *sb, struct kstatfs *buf)
+static int shmem_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *buf)
 {
-	struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(sb);
+	struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(dentry->d_sb);
 
 	buf->f_type = TMPFS_MAGIC;
 	buf->f_bsize = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;