iget: remove iget() and the read_inode() super op as being obsolete

Remove the old iget() call and the read_inode() superblock operation it uses
as these are really obsolete, and the use of read_inode() does not produce
proper error handling (no distinction between ENOMEM and EIO when marking an
inode bad).

Furthermore, this removes the temptation to use iget() to find an inode by
number in a filesystem from code outside that filesystem.

iget_locked() should be used instead.  A new function is added in an earlier
patch (iget_failed) that is to be called to mark an inode as bad, unlock it
and release it should the get routine fail.  Mark iget() and read_inode() as
being obsolete and remove references to them from the documentation.

Typically a filesystem will be modified such that the read_inode function
becomes an internal iget function, for example the following:

	void thingyfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode)
	{
		...
	}

would be changed into something like:

	struct inode *thingyfs_iget(struct super_block *sp, unsigned long ino)
	{
		struct inode *inode;
		int ret;

		inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
		if (!inode)
			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
		if (!(inode->i_state & I_NEW))
			return inode;

		...
		unlock_new_inode(inode);
		return inode;
	error:
		iget_failed(inode);
		return ERR_PTR(ret);
	}

and then thingyfs_iget() would be called rather than iget(), for example:

	ret = -EINVAL;
	inode = iget(sb, ino);
	if (!inode || is_bad_inode(inode))
		goto error;

becomes:

	inode = thingyfs_iget(sb, ino);
	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
		ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
		goto error;
	}

Note that is_bad_inode() does not need to be called.  The error returned by
thingyfs_iget() should render it unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d202600..36b7abe 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1241,8 +1241,6 @@ struct super_operations {
    	struct inode *(*alloc_inode)(struct super_block *sb);
 	void (*destroy_inode)(struct inode *);
 
-	void (*read_inode) (struct inode *);
-  
    	void (*dirty_inode) (struct inode *);
 	int (*write_inode) (struct inode *, int);
 	void (*put_inode) (struct inode *);
@@ -1767,18 +1765,6 @@ extern struct inode * iget5_locked(struct super_block *, unsigned long, int (*te
 extern struct inode * iget_locked(struct super_block *, unsigned long);
 extern void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *);
 
-static inline struct inode *iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
-{
-	struct inode *inode = iget_locked(sb, ino);
-	
-	if (inode && (inode->i_state & I_NEW)) {
-		sb->s_op->read_inode(inode);
-		unlock_new_inode(inode);
-	}
-
-	return inode;
-}
-
 extern void __iget(struct inode * inode);
 extern void iget_failed(struct inode *);
 extern void clear_inode(struct inode *);