nilfs2: allow future expansion of metadata read out via get info ioctl

Nilfs has some ioctl commands to read out metadata from meta data
files:

 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO for checkpoint file,
 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO for segment usage file, and
 - NILFS_IOCTL_GET_VINFO for Disk Address Transalation (DAT) file,
   respectively.

Every routine on these metadata files is implemented so that it allows
future expansion of on-disk format.  But, the above ioctl commands do
not support expansion even though nilfs_argv structure can handle
arbitrary size for data exchanged via ioctl.

This allows future expansion of the following structures which give
basic format of the "get information" ioctls:

 - struct nilfs_cpinfo
 - struct nilfs_suinfo
 - struct nilfs_vinfo

So, this introduces forward compatility of such ioctl commands.

In this patch, a sanity check in nilfs_ioctl_get_info() function is
changed to accept larger data structure [1], and metadata read
routines are rewritten so that they become compatible for larger
structures; the routines will just ignore the remaining fields which
the current version of nilfs doesn't know.

[1] The ioctl function already has another upper limit (PAGE_SIZE
    against a structure, which appears in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy
    function), and this will not cause security problem.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/sufile.h b/fs/nilfs2/sufile.h
index fd6232e..a2c4d76 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/sufile.h
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/sufile.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ void nilfs_sufile_put_segment_usage(struct inode *, __u64,
 				    struct buffer_head *);
 int nilfs_sufile_get_stat(struct inode *, struct nilfs_sustat *);
 int nilfs_sufile_get_ncleansegs(struct inode *, unsigned long *);
-ssize_t nilfs_sufile_get_suinfo(struct inode *, __u64, struct nilfs_suinfo *,
+ssize_t nilfs_sufile_get_suinfo(struct inode *, __u64, void *, unsigned,
 				size_t);
 
 int nilfs_sufile_updatev(struct inode *, __u64 *, size_t, int, size_t *,