This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular files
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
don-t-bother-with-get-put-_write_access-on-non-regular-files.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From dd20908a8a06b22c171f6c3fcdbdbd65bed07505 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:56:20 -0400
Subject: don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular files
From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
commit dd20908a8a06b22c171f6c3fcdbdbd65bed07505 upstream.
it's pointless and actually leads to wrong behaviour in at least one
moderately convoluted case (pipe(), close one end, try to get to
another via /proc/*/fd and run into ETXTBUSY).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 5b24008ea4f6..79ecae62209a 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ static void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file)
struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- put_write_access(inode);
-
if (special_file(inode->i_mode))
return;
+
+ put_write_access(inode);
if (file_check_writeable(file) != 0)
return;
__mnt_drop_write(mnt);
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index b9ed8b25c108..2ed7325f713e 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -641,23 +641,12 @@ out:
static inline int __get_file_write_access(struct inode *inode,
struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
- int error;
- error = get_write_access(inode);
+ int error = get_write_access(inode);
if (error)
return error;
- /*
- * Do not take mount writer counts on
- * special files since no writes to
- * the mount itself will occur.
- */
- if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
- /*
- * Balanced in __fput()
- */
- error = __mnt_want_write(mnt);
- if (error)
- put_write_access(inode);
- }
+ error = __mnt_want_write(mnt);
+ if (error)
+ put_write_access(inode);
return error;
}
@@ -690,12 +679,11 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
path_get(&f->f_path);
inode = f->f_inode = f->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
- if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
+ if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && !special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
error = __get_file_write_access(inode, f->f_path.mnt);
if (error)
goto cleanup_file;
- if (!special_file(inode->i_mode))
- file_take_write(f);
+ file_take_write(f);
}
f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping;
@@ -742,7 +730,6 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
cleanup_all:
fops_put(f->f_op);
if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
- put_write_access(inode);
if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
/*
* We don't consider this a real
@@ -750,6 +737,7 @@ cleanup_all:
* because it all happenend right
* here, so just reset the state.
*/
+ put_write_access(inode);
file_reset_write(f);
__mnt_drop_write(f->f_path.mnt);
}
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