From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Amir Goldstein , Miklos Szeredi , Christoph Hellwig , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.18 50/53] Revert "vfs: fix freeze protection in mnt_want_write_file() for overlayfs" Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:54:43 +0200 Message-Id: <20181018175425.165598762@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181018175416.561567978@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181018175416.561567978@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Greg Kroah-Hartman This reverts commit 5e1002ab5c9bde81a0c1eed12f243987e98f7bd0 which was commit a6795a585929d94ca3e931bc8518f8deb8bbe627 upstream. Turns out this causes problems and was to fix a patch only in the 4.19 and newer tree. Reported-by: Amir Goldstein Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/namespace.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -446,10 +446,10 @@ int mnt_want_write_file_path(struct file { int ret; - sb_start_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb); + sb_start_write(file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb); ret = __mnt_want_write_file(file); if (ret) - sb_end_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb); + sb_end_write(file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb); return ret; } @@ -540,8 +540,7 @@ void __mnt_drop_write_file(struct file * void mnt_drop_write_file_path(struct file *file) { - __mnt_drop_write_file(file); - sb_end_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb); + mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt); } void mnt_drop_write_file(struct file *file)