pstore_erase is used to erase the record from the persistent store.
So if a driver has not defined pstore_erase callback return
-EINVAL instead of unlinking a file as deleting the file without
erasing its record in persistent store will give a wrong impression
to customers.
Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <ar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
fs/pstore/inode.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index e4bcb2c..fa6339a 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry
*dentry)
if (p->psi->erase)
p->psi->erase(p->type, p->id, p->count,
dentry->d_inode->i_ctime, p->psi);
+ else
+ return -EINVAL;
return simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
}
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