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authorOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>2009-08-06 15:07:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-08-07 10:39:56 -0700
commit2d8dd38a5aa0cc2490bbad9b75e77fa154e1d145 (patch)
treedcc1ec93e95dde5704a7e37939454c9b24904758
parent69130c7cf96ea853dc5be599dd6a4b98907d39cc (diff)
vfs: mnt_want_write_file(): fix special file handling
I suspect that mnt_want_write_file() may have wrong assumption. I think mnt_want_write_file() is assuming it increments ->mnt_writers if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE). But, if it's special_file(), it is false? Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 277c28a63ead..7230787d18b0 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -316,7 +316,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mnt_clone_write);
*/
int mnt_want_write_file(struct file *file)
{
- if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
+ if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) || special_file(inode->i_mode))
return mnt_want_write(file->f_path.mnt);
else
return mnt_clone_write(file->f_path.mnt);