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| author | Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> | 2011-02-17 00:11:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-02-17 01:48:13 +0100 |
| commit | e51900f7d38cbcfb481d84567fd92540e7e1d23a (patch) | |
| tree | f732388a0efab2967fddc0afd0f2200731e34d02 /fs | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e51900f7d38cbcfb481d84567fd92540e7e1d23a.tar.xz linux-e51900f7d38cbcfb481d84567fd92540e7e1d23a.zip | |
block: revert block_dev read-only check
This reverts commit 75f1dc0d076d ("block: check bdev_read_only() from
blkdev_get()"). That commit added stricter checking to make sure
devices that were being used read-only were actually opened in that
mode.
It turns out that the change breaks a bunch of kernel code that opens
block devices. Affected systems include dm, md, and the loop device.
Because strict checking for read-only opens of block devices was not
done before this, the code that opens the devices was opening them
read-write even if they were being used read-only. Auditing all that
code will take time, and new userspace packages for dm, mdadm, etc.
will also be required.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/block_dev.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 333a7bb4cb9c..4fb8a3431531 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -1215,12 +1215,6 @@ int blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, void *holder) res = __blkdev_get(bdev, mode, 0); - /* __blkdev_get() may alter read only status, check it afterwards */ - if (!res && (mode & FMODE_WRITE) && bdev_read_only(bdev)) { - __blkdev_put(bdev, mode, 0); - res = -EACCES; - } - if (whole) { /* finish claiming */ mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); @@ -1298,6 +1292,11 @@ struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_path(const char *path, fmode_t mode, if (err) return ERR_PTR(err); + if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && bdev_read_only(bdev)) { + blkdev_put(bdev, mode); + return ERR_PTR(-EACCES); + } + return bdev; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_get_by_path); |