On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 09:23:23AM +0900, Daeho Jeong wrote:
> Yes, I saw the implementation in vfs_write().
> But if we use mnt_want_write_file() here, it'll call mnt_clone_write()
> internally if the file is already open in write mode.
> Don't you think the below thing is needed? We can increase the counter
> each of them, open and ioctl, like other filesystems such as ext4.
>
> int mnt_clone_write(struct vfsmount *mnt)
> {
> /* superblock may be r/o */
> if (__mnt_is_readonly(mnt))
> return -EROFS;
> preempt_disable();
> mnt_inc_writers(real_mount(mnt));
> preempt_enable();
> return 0;
> }
No, this seems to be left over from when mnt_want_write_file() was paired with
mnt_drop_write() instead of mnt_drop_write_file(). I sent a patch to remove it:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200611014945.237210-1-ebigg...@kernel.org
- Eric
