On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:03 PM, rohit vashist
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Suppose i do a read operation on a file which is on some xyz device.And this
> device is mounted with some flag may be MS_READONLY,MS_REMOUNT.Now if i do a
> write operation on this device i m not allowed to do so because the it has
> been mounted as read only.
> My question is when read system call occurs where does it check that flag
> i.e is it after vfs_read() or in generic_file_read()?
Hi,
Hope this answers your question
[r...@localhost testext2]# echo hi > a
Breakpoint 3, mnt_want_write (mnt=0x27852a10) at fs/namespace.c:259
259 if (__mnt_is_readonly(mnt)) {
(gdb) bt
#0 mnt_want_write (mnt=0x27852a10) at fs/namespace.c:259
#1 0x080c213c in do_filp_open (dfd=-100, pathname=0x24241000 "a",
open_flag=33345, mode=438) at fs/namei.c:1746
#2 0x080b5df9 in do_sys_open (dfd=-100, filename=0x811e7c8 "",
flags=33345, mode=438) at fs/open.c:1018
#3 0x080b5ea6 in sys_open (filename=0x811e7c8 "", flags=33345,
mode=438) at fs/open.c:1039
#4 0x0805a4e8 in handle_syscall (r=0x27b45214) at
arch/um/kernel/skas/syscall.c:35
#5 0x080686a2 in userspace (regs=0x27b45214) at
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c:201
#6 0x0805774e in fork_handler () at arch/um/kernel/process.c:179
#7 0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) n
269 }
(gdb)
do_filp_open (dfd=-100, pathname=0x24241000 "a", open_flag=33345,
mode=438) at fs/namei.c:1747
1747 if (error)
(gdb) p error
$5 = -30
(gdb) p EROFS
$6 = 30
(gdb) c
Continuing.
-bash: a: Read-only file system
Thanks -
Manish
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> Regards
> Vashist
>
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