[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "don't bother with {get, put}_write_access() on non-regular files" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular files

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From b9357ef075972d880c0de88946e6d2173ae14765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:56:20 -0400
Subject: don't bother with {get,put}_write_access() on non-regular files

commit dd20908a8a06b22c171f6c3fcdbdbd65bed07505 upstream.

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).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/file_table.c |  4 ++--
 fs/open.c       | 26 +++++++-------------------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index b44e4c5..cfd3902 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -211,10 +211,10 @@ 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);
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 7931f76..5a70a86 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -628,23 +628,12 @@ out:
 static inline int __get_file_write_access(struct inode *inode,
 					  struct vfsmount *mnt)
 {
-	int error;
-	error = get_write_access(inode);
+	int error = get_write_access(inode);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
-	/*
-	 * Do not take mount writer counts on
-	 * special files since no writes to
-	 * the mount itself will occur.
-	 */
-	if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
-		/*
-		 * Balanced in __fput()
-		 */
-		error = __mnt_want_write(mnt);
-		if (error)
-			put_write_access(inode);
-	}
+	error = __mnt_want_write(mnt);
+	if (error)
+		put_write_access(inode);
 	return error;
 }

@@ -677,12 +666,11 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,

 	path_get(&f->f_path);
 	inode = f->f_inode = f->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
-	if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
+	if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && !special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
 		error = __get_file_write_access(inode, f->f_path.mnt);
 		if (error)
 			goto cleanup_file;
-		if (!special_file(inode->i_mode))
-			file_take_write(f);
+		file_take_write(f);
 	}

 	f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping;
@@ -723,7 +711,6 @@ cleanup_all:
 	fops_put(f->f_op);
 	file_sb_list_del(f);
 	if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
-		put_write_access(inode);
 		if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
 			/*
 			 * We don't consider this a real
@@ -731,6 +718,7 @@ cleanup_all:
 			 * because it all happenend right
 			 * here, so just reset the state.
 			 */
+			put_write_access(inode);
 			file_reset_write(f);
 			__mnt_drop_write(f->f_path.mnt);
 		}
--
1.9.1