From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: Can ovl_drop_write() be called earlier in ovl_dentry_open()
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:52:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21902.1433166736@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In ovl_dentry_open(), ovl_drop_write() is called after vfs_open() - but is
this actually necessary? Can't we just drop it post-copyup? After all,
that's all we wanted the write lock for, right?
David
---
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -356,16 +356,14 @@ static int ovl_dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
err = ovl_copy_up_last(dentry, NULL, true);
else
err = ovl_copy_up(dentry);
+ ovl_drop_write(dentry);
if (err)
- goto out_drop_write;
+ goto out;
ovl_path_upper(dentry, &realpath);
}
err = vfs_open(&realpath, d_backing_inode(realpath.dentry), file, cred);
-out_drop_write:
- if (want_write)
- ovl_drop_write(dentry);
out:
return err;
}
next reply other threads:[~2015-06-01 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-01 13:52 David Howells [this message]
2015-06-01 14:21 ` [PATCH] overlay: Call ovl_drop_write() earlier in ovl_dentry_open() David Howells
2015-06-01 14:22 ` Can ovl_drop_write() be called " Miklos Szeredi
2015-06-01 15:45 ` David Howells
2015-06-01 15:51 ` Miklos Szeredi
2015-06-01 15:53 ` David Howells
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