root/include/linux/fs_dirent.h
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
#ifndef _LINUX_FS_DIRENT_H
#define _LINUX_FS_DIRENT_H

#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

/*
 * This is a header for the common implementation of dirent
 * to fs on-disk file type conversion.  Although the fs on-disk
 * bits are specific to every file system, in practice, many
 * file systems use the exact same on-disk format to describe
 * the lower 3 file type bits that represent the 7 POSIX file
 * types.
 *
 * It is important to note that the definitions in this
 * header MUST NOT change. This would break both the
 * userspace ABI and the on-disk format of filesystems
 * using this code.
 *
 * All those file systems can use this generic code for the
 * conversions.
 */

/*
 * struct dirent file types
 * exposed to user via getdents(2), readdir(3)
 *
 * These match bits 12..15 of stat.st_mode
 * (ie "(i_mode >> 12) & 15").
 */
#define S_DT_SHIFT      12
#define S_DT(mode)      (((mode) & S_IFMT) >> S_DT_SHIFT)
#define S_DT_MASK       (S_IFMT >> S_DT_SHIFT)

/* these are defined by POSIX and also present in glibc's dirent.h */
#define DT_UNKNOWN      0
#define DT_FIFO         1
#define DT_CHR          2
#define DT_DIR          4
#define DT_BLK          6
#define DT_REG          8
#define DT_LNK          10
#define DT_SOCK         12
#define DT_WHT          14

#define DT_MAX          (S_DT_MASK + 1) /* 16 */

/*
 * fs on-disk file types.
 * Only the low 3 bits are used for the POSIX file types.
 * Other bits are reserved for fs private use.
 * These definitions are shared and used by multiple filesystems,
 * and MUST NOT change under any circumstances.
 *
 * Note that no fs currently stores the whiteout type on-disk,
 * so whiteout dirents are exposed to user as DT_CHR.
 */
#define FT_UNKNOWN      0
#define FT_REG_FILE     1
#define FT_DIR          2
#define FT_CHRDEV       3
#define FT_BLKDEV       4
#define FT_FIFO         5
#define FT_SOCK         6
#define FT_SYMLINK      7

#define FT_MAX          8

/*
 * declarations for helper functions, accompanying implementation
 * is in fs/fs_dirent.c
 */
extern unsigned char fs_ftype_to_dtype(unsigned int filetype);
extern unsigned char fs_umode_to_ftype(umode_t mode);
extern unsigned char fs_umode_to_dtype(umode_t mode);

#endif /* _LINUX_FS_DIRENT_H */