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| author | Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> | 2008-02-15 23:37:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2008-04-19 06:25:32 +0200 |
| commit | aceaf78da92a53f5e1b105649a1b8c0afdb2135c (patch) | |
| tree | cab04e05f8b504b0a11d4986045bc3b08a3a1e75 /fs | |
| parent | [PATCH] r/o bind mounts: stub functions (diff) | |
| download | linux-aceaf78da92a53f5e1b105649a1b8c0afdb2135c.tar.xz linux-aceaf78da92a53f5e1b105649a1b8c0afdb2135c.zip | |
[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: create helper to drop file write access
If someone decides to demote a file from r/w to just
r/o, they can use this same code as __fput().
NFS does just that, and will use this in the next
patch.
AV: drop write access in __fput() only after we evict from file list.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 986ff4ed0a7c..3f73eb1f195a 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -211,6 +211,23 @@ void fput(struct file *file) EXPORT_SYMBOL(fput); +/** + * drop_file_write_access - give up ability to write to a file + * @file: the file to which we will stop writing + * + * This is a central place which will give up the ability + * to write to @file, along with access to write through + * its vfsmount. + */ +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); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drop_file_write_access); + /* __fput is called from task context when aio completion releases the last * last use of a struct file *. Do not use otherwise. */ @@ -236,10 +253,10 @@ void __fput(struct file *file) if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL)) cdev_put(inode->i_cdev); fops_put(file->f_op); - if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) - put_write_access(inode); put_pid(file->f_owner.pid); file_kill(file); + if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) + drop_file_write_access(file); file->f_path.dentry = NULL; file->f_path.mnt = NULL; file_free(file); diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index bcb97d8e8b8b..81a75f3081f4 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ #include <linux/sunrpc/svc.h> #include <linux/nfsd/nfsd.h> #include <linux/nfsd/cache.h> +#include <linux/file.h> #include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/workqueue.h> #include <linux/smp_lock.h> @@ -1239,7 +1240,7 @@ static inline void nfs4_file_downgrade(struct file *filp, unsigned int share_access) { if (share_access & NFS4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE) { - put_write_access(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode); + drop_file_write_access(filp); filp->f_mode = (filp->f_mode | FMODE_READ) & ~FMODE_WRITE; } } |