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Commit d79d75b5 authored by Krzysztof Opasiak's avatar Krzysztof Opasiak Committed by Nicholas Bellinger
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fs: configfs: Add unlocked version of configfs_depend_item()



This change is necessary for the SCSI target usb gadget composed with
configfs. In this case configfs will be used for two different purposes:
to compose a usb gadget and to configure the target part. If an instance
of tcm function is created in $CONFIGFS_ROOT/usb_gadget/<gadget>/functions
a tpg can be created in $CONFIGFS_ROOT/target/usb_gadget/<wwn>/, but after
a tpg is created the tcm function must not be removed until its
corresponding tpg is gone. While the configfs_depend/undepend_item() are
meant exactly for creating this kind of dependencies, they are not suitable
if the other kernel subsystem happens to be another subsystem in configfs,
so this patch adds unlocked versions meant for configfs callbacks.

Above description has been provided by:
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>

In configfs_depend_item() we have to consider two possible cases:

1) When we are called to depend another item in the same subsystem
   as caller
	In this case we should skip locking configfs root as we know
	that configfs is in valid state and our subsystem will not
	be unregistered during this call.

2) When we are called to depend item in different subsystem than
   our caller
	In this case we are also sure that configfs is in valid state
	but we have to lock root of configfs to avoid unregistration
	of target's subsystem. As it is other than caller's subsystem,
	there may be nothing what protects us against unregistration
	of that subsystem.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKrzysztof Opasiak <k.opasiak@samsung.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
parent 9a70adff
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