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From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, hch@infradead.org, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/7] init_file(): only take writes on normal files
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:34:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010163439.0F8089F7@kernel> (raw)



---

 lxc-dave/fs/file_table.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/file_table.c~init_file-only-take-writes-on-normal-files fs/file_table.c
--- lxc/fs/file_table.c~init_file-only-take-writes-on-normal-files	2007-10-04 13:01:59.000000000 -0700
+++ lxc-dave/fs/file_table.c	2007-10-04 13:03:03.000000000 -0700
@@ -199,7 +199,12 @@ int init_file(struct file *file, struct 
 	file->f_mapping = dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
 	file->f_mode = mode;
 	file->f_op = fop;
-	if (mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
+	/*
+	 * These mounts don't really matter in practice
+	 * for r/o bind mounts.  They aren't userspace-
+	 * visible.  We do this for consistency.
+	 */
+	if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !special_file(dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
 		file->f_mnt_write_state = FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN;
 		error = mnt_want_write(mnt);
 		WARN_ON(error);
_

             reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10 16:34 Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-10-10 16:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/7] get mount write in __dentry_open() Dave Hansen
2007-10-11 15:08   ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-11 18:16     ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-11 18:31       ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-11 19:24         ` Dave Hansen
2007-10-10 16:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/7] do namei_flags calculation inside open_namei() Dave Hansen
2007-10-10 16:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/7] make open_namei() return a filp Dave Hansen
2007-10-11 15:24   ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-10 16:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/7] kill do_filp_open() Dave Hansen
2007-10-10 16:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/7] kill filp_open() Dave Hansen
2007-10-10 16:34 ` [RFC][PATCH 7/7] keep track of mnt_writer state of struct file Dave Hansen

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