Commit 592ca09b authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand
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fs: update documentation of get_write_access() and friends



As VM_DENYWRITE does no longer exists, let's spring-clean the
documentation of get_write_access() and friends.

Acked-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
parent 6128b3af
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@@ -3055,15 +3055,20 @@ static inline void file_end_write(struct file *file)
}

/*
 * This is used for regular files where some users -- especially the
 * currently executed binary in a process, previously handled via
 * VM_DENYWRITE -- cannot handle concurrent write (and maybe mmap
 * read-write shared) accesses.
 *
 * get_write_access() gets write permission for a file.
 * put_write_access() releases this write permission.
 * This is used for regular files.
 * We cannot support write (and maybe mmap read-write shared) accesses and
 * MAP_DENYWRITE mmappings simultaneously. The i_writecount field of an inode
 * can have the following values:
 * 0: no writers, no VM_DENYWRITE mappings
 * < 0: (-i_writecount) vm_area_structs with VM_DENYWRITE set exist
 * > 0: (i_writecount) users are writing to the file.
 * deny_write_access() denies write access to a file.
 * allow_write_access() re-enables write access to a file.
 *
 * The i_writecount field of an inode can have the following values:
 * 0: no write access, no denied write access
 * < 0: (-i_writecount) users that denied write access to the file.
 * > 0: (i_writecount) users that have write access to the file.
 *
 * Normally we operate on that counter with atomic_{inc,dec} and it's safe
 * except for the cases where we don't hold i_writecount yet. Then we need to