On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 05:23:22PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Fixes pushed to overlayfs.v22 (and overlayfs.current). Will
> > eventually fold these into the main overlayfs patch.
>
> Okay... those are fixed. Here's the next:
>
generic_file_splice_write() uses I_MUTEX_CHILD. Not sure why, though, parent
shouldn't be locked. Maybe it's some remaining thing from the days when pipes
used the i_mutex on the pipe inode. Probably should just remove that notation
and things will work.
Untested.
Thanks,
Miklos
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index fb1094bbe5af..3703c512c46e 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct file *out,
if (ret <= 0)
break;
- mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
ret = file_remove_suid(out);
if (!ret) {
ret = file_update_time(out);
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