On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > It is OK to let access() go without using a mnt_want/drop_write() > pair because it doesn't actually do writes to the filesystem, > and it is inherently racy anyway. This is a rare case when it is > OK to use __mnt_is_readonly() directly.
You probably want to add a big comment explaining why it's fine here. That reminds me of something else I had in mind to debug that the writer counts are okay: we should probably add a check in permission that we have an elevated writercount on the vfsmount/sb. Of course we'll need some way to overrid it for access(), which means passing down a flag to it or something. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
