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Commit 4a3fd211 authored by Dave Hansen's avatar Dave Hansen Committed by Al Viro
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[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for open()s



This is the first really tricky patch in the series.  It elevates the writer
count on a mount each time a non-special file is opened for write.

We used to do this in may_open(), but Miklos pointed out that __dentry_open()
is used as well to create filps.  This will cover even those cases, while a
call in may_open() would not have.

There is also an elevated count around the vfs_create() call in open_namei().
See the comments for more details, but we need this to fix a 'create, remount,
fail r/w open()' race.

Some filesystems forego the use of normal vfs calls to create
struct files.   Make sure that these users elevate the mnt
writer count because they will get __fput(), and we need
to make sure they're balanced.

Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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