r/o bind mounts: rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly
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>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 2792e0c..a29bb0f 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1604,10 +1604,6 @@
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
@@ -1622,6 +1618,10 @@
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.
*/