| Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:03:14 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/25] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for some ioctls |
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:52:57 -0700 Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Some ioctl()s can cause writes to the filesystem. Take > these, and make them use mnt_want/drop_write() instead. > > We need to pass the filp one layer deeper in XFS, but > somebody _just_ pulled it out in February because nobody > was using it, so I don't feel guilty for adding it back.
Note that -mm's ext2-reservations.patch adds EXT2_IOC_SETRSVSZ, and it doesn't do mnt_want_write(). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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