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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] create file_drop_write_access() helper
In message <20071109210439.122065A3@kernel>, Dave Hansen writes:
>
> 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.
[...]

I can confirm that this patch fixes the bug I reported earlier today.

Thanks,
Erez.
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