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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-03-14 10:56:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-04-01 23:19:11 -0400 |
| commit | dd20908a8a06b22c171f6c3fcdbdbd65bed07505 (patch) | |
| tree | 447e2df881b2f056608098d3b24ab6d9734ce992 /fs/open.c | |
| parent | 44ba8406d0005400e56c6b6a279a669eb761d1b8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dd20908a8a06b22c171f6c3fcdbdbd65bed07505.tar.bz2 | |
don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular files
it's pointless and actually leads to wrong behaviour in at least one
moderately convoluted case (pipe(), close one end, try to get to
another via /proc/*/fd and run into ETXTBUSY).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 26 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index b9ed8b25c108..2ed7325f713e 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -641,23 +641,12 @@ out: static inline int __get_file_write_access(struct inode *inode, struct vfsmount *mnt) { - int error; - error = get_write_access(inode); + int error = get_write_access(inode); if (error) return error; - /* - * Do not take mount writer counts on - * special files since no writes to - * the mount itself will occur. - */ - if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) { - /* - * Balanced in __fput() - */ - error = __mnt_want_write(mnt); - if (error) - put_write_access(inode); - } + error = __mnt_want_write(mnt); + if (error) + put_write_access(inode); return error; } @@ -690,12 +679,11 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f, path_get(&f->f_path); inode = f->f_inode = f->f_path.dentry->d_inode; - if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) { + if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && !special_file(inode->i_mode)) { error = __get_file_write_access(inode, f->f_path.mnt); if (error) goto cleanup_file; - if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) - file_take_write(f); + file_take_write(f); } f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping; @@ -742,7 +730,6 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f, cleanup_all: fops_put(f->f_op); if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) { - put_write_access(inode); if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) { /* * We don't consider this a real @@ -750,6 +737,7 @@ cleanup_all: * because it all happenend right * here, so just reset the state. */ + put_write_access(inode); file_reset_write(f); __mnt_drop_write(f->f_path.mnt); } |