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Subject[PATCH 1/2] create file_drop_write_access() helper
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These should fix the bug that Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
reported:

Stopping RPC idmapd:

kernel: __fput() of writeable file with no mnt_want_write()
kernel: WARNING: at fs/file_table.c:262 __fput()
kernel: [<c010283e>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x12/0x25
kernel: [<c0103042>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
...

The actual bug was a missed mnt_want_write() when a
filp was allocated with get_empty_filp() and then
made writable. Using alloc_file(), instead, fixes
that.

--

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.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
---

linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/file_table.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------
linux-2.6.git-dave/include/linux/file.h | 1
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/file_table.c~create-file_drop_write_access fs/file_table.c
--- linux-2.6.git/fs/file_table.c~create-file_drop_write_access 2007-11-09 12:12:44.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/fs/file_table.c 2007-11-09 12:39:27.000000000 -0800
@@ -223,6 +223,34 @@ void fastcall 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 vfsmount *mnt = file->f_path.mnt;
+ struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+
+ put_write_access(inode);
+ if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
+ if (file->f_mnt_write_state == FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN) {
+ mnt_drop_write(mnt);
+ file->f_mnt_write_state |= FILE_MNT_WRITE_RELEASED;
+ } else {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "dropping write access on "
+ "file with no mnt_want_write()\n");
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ }
+ }
+}
+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.
*/
@@ -248,21 +276,9 @@ void fastcall __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);
- if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
- if (file->f_mnt_write_state == FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN) {
- mnt_drop_write(mnt);
- file->f_mnt_write_state |=
- FILE_MNT_WRITE_RELEASED;
- } else {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "__fput() of writeable "
- "file with no "
- "mnt_want_write()\n");
- WARN_ON(1);
- }
- }
- }
+ if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
+ drop_file_write_access(file);
+
put_pid(file->f_owner.pid);
file_kill(file);
file->f_path.dentry = NULL;
diff -puN include/linux/file.h~create-file_drop_write_access include/linux/file.h
--- linux-2.6.git/include/linux/file.h~create-file_drop_write_access 2007-11-09 12:12:44.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.git-dave/include/linux/file.h 2007-11-09 12:12:44.000000000 -0800
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep;

extern void FASTCALL(__fput(struct file *));
extern void FASTCALL(fput(struct file *));
+extern void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file);

struct file_operations;
struct vfsmount;
_
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