coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls

This is an variation on the patch sent by Christoph Hellwig which kills
file_count abuse by the Coda kernel module by moving the coda_flush
functionality into coda_release.  However part of reason we were using the
coda_flush callback was to allow Coda to pass errors that occur during
writeback from the userspace cache manager back to close().

As Al Viro explained on linux-fsdevel, it is impossible to guarantee that
such errors can in fact be returned back to the caller.  There are many
cases where the last reference to a file is not released by the close
system call and it is also impossible to pick some close as a 'last-close'
and delay it until all other references have been destroyed.

The CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcall combination is clearly a broken design,
and it is better to remove it completely.

Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 48 deletions

diff --git a/fs/coda/upcall.c b/fs/coda/upcall.c
index cd561d2e90b0..cdb4c07a7870 100644
--- a/fs/coda/upcall.c
+++ b/fs/coda/upcall.c
@@ -160,55 +160,8 @@ int venus_lookup(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid,
 	return error;
 }
 
-int venus_store(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,
-                vuid_t uid)
-{
-        union inputArgs *inp;
-        union outputArgs *outp;
-        int insize, outsize, error;
-#ifdef CONFIG_CODA_FS_OLD_API
-	struct coda_cred cred = { 0, };
-	cred.cr_fsuid = uid;
-#endif
-	
-	insize = SIZE(store);
-	UPARG(CODA_STORE);
-	
-#ifdef CONFIG_CODA_FS_OLD_API
-	memcpy(&(inp->ih.cred), &cred, sizeof(cred));
-#else
-	inp->ih.uid = uid;
-#endif
-	
-        inp->coda_store.VFid = *fid;
-        inp->coda_store.flags = flags;
-
-	error = coda_upcall(coda_vcp(sb), insize, &outsize, inp);
-
-	CODA_FREE(inp, insize);
-        return error;
-}
-
-int venus_release(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags)
-{
-        union inputArgs *inp;
-        union outputArgs *outp;
-        int insize, outsize, error;
-	
-	insize = SIZE(release);
-	UPARG(CODA_RELEASE);
-	
-	inp->coda_release.VFid = *fid;
-	inp->coda_release.flags = flags;
-
-	error = coda_upcall(coda_vcp(sb), insize, &outsize, inp);
-
-	CODA_FREE(inp, insize);
-	return error;
-}
-
 int venus_close(struct super_block *sb, struct CodaFid *fid, int flags,
-                vuid_t uid)
+		vuid_t uid)
 {
 	union inputArgs *inp;
 	union outputArgs *outp;