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[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: create helper to drop file write access
authorDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:37:31 +0000 (14:37 -0800)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:25:32 +0000 (00:25 -0400)
commitaceaf78da92a53f5e1b105649a1b8c0afdb2135c
treecab04e05f8b504b0a11d4986045bc3b08a3a1e75
parent8366025eb80dfa0d8d94b286d53027081c280ef1
[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: create helper to drop file write access

If someone decides to demote a file from r/w to just
r/o, they can use this same code as __fput().

NFS does just that, and will use this in the next
patch.

AV: drop write access in __fput() only after we evict from file list.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/file_table.c
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
include/linux/file.h