From: Al Viro <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Al Viro
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 6:56 PM
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 07:39:32AM -0700, Konstantin Komarov wrote:
> 
> > +static int ntfs_atomic_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> > +                       struct file *file, u32 flags, umode_t mode)
> > +{
[]
> > +           if (d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
> > +                   if (file->f_mode & FMODE_OPENED) {
> 
>       How do we get FMODE_OPENED here?
> 
> > +                           dput(d);
> > +                           err = 0;
> > +                   } else
> > +                           err = finish_no_open(file, d);
> > +                   goto out1;
> > +           }
> > +           WARN_ON(d);
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   if (!(flags & O_CREAT)) {
> > +           err = -ENOENT;
> > +           goto out1;
> > +   }
> 
>       Just return finish_no_open() in that case.  And let the caller handle
> that.
> 
> > +   err = ntfs_create_inode(dir, dentry, file, mode, 0, NULL, 0, excl, fnd,
> > +                           &inode);
> > +
> > +out1:
> > +   fnd_put(fnd);
> > +out:
> > +   ni_unlock(ni);
> > +
> > +   return err;
> > +}
> 
> BTW, what's the point of that ni_lock() here?  d_in_lookup() is stable
> regardless of that and any attempts to create something in the parent
> are serialized by ->i_rwsem.  If you want it around the actual file
> creation, why not take it just there, and replace the open-coded
> ntfs_lookup() with the call of the real thing?  As in
>       if (d_in_lookup(dentry)) {
>               d = ntfs_lookup(....);
>               if (IS_ERR(d))
>                       return d;
>               if (d)
>                       dentry = d;
>       }
>         if (!(flags & O_CREAT) || d_really_is_positive(dentry))
>               return finish_no_open(file, d);
>       /* deal with creation of file */
>       ni_lock(...);
>       ....

Thanks for the feedback! We refactored the atomic_open() based on
your concerns. Will be published in v4 patch today.

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