may_open() calls vfs_permission() before it does checks for
IS_RDONLY(inode). It checks _again_ inside of vfs_permission().
The check inside of vfs_permission() is going away eventually.
With the mnt_want/drop_write() functions, all of the r/o
checks (except for this one) are consistently done before
calling permission(). Because of this, I'd like to use
permission() to hold a debugging check to make sure that
the mnt_want/drop_write() calls are actually being made.
So, to do this:
1. remove the IS_RDONLY() check from permission()
2. enforce that you must mnt_want_write() before
even calling permission()
3. actually add the debugging check to permission()
We need to rearrange may_open() to do r/o checks
before calling permission(). Here's the patch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
---
lxc-dave/fs/namei.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/namei.c~rearrange-permission-and-ro-checks-in-may_open fs/namei.c
--- lxc/fs/namei.c~rearrange-permission-and-ro-checks-in-may_open 2007-09-20 12:16:09.000000000 -0700
+++ lxc-dave/fs/namei.c 2007-09-20 12:16:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -1579,10 +1579,6 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (flag & FMODE_WRITE))
return -EISDIR;
- error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
- if (error)
- return error;
-
/*
* FIFO's, sockets and device files are special: they don't
* actually live on the filesystem itself, and as such you
@@ -1597,6 +1593,10 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
} else if (IS_RDONLY(inode) && (flag & FMODE_WRITE))
return -EROFS;
+
+ error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
/*
* An append-only file must be opened in append mode for writing.
*/
_
-
