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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-03-14 10:56:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2014-04-01 23:19:11 -0400 |
| commit | dd20908a8a06b22c171f6c3fcdbdbd65bed07505 (patch) | |
| tree | 447e2df881b2f056608098d3b24ab6d9734ce992 /fs/file_table.c | |
| parent | 44ba8406d0005400e56c6b6a279a669eb761d1b8 (diff) | |
don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular files
it's pointless and actually leads to wrong behaviour in at least one
moderately convoluted case (pipe(), close one end, try to get to
another via /proc/*/fd and run into ETXTBUSY).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/file_table.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 5b24008ea4f6..79ecae62209a 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ static void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file) struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry; struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; - put_write_access(inode); - if (special_file(inode->i_mode)) return; + + put_write_access(inode); if (file_check_writeable(file) != 0) return; __mnt_drop_write(mnt); |