On Tue 23-01-24 14:26:49, Christian Brauner wrote: > We just need to use the holder to indicate whether a block device open > was exclusive or not. We did use to do that before but had to give that > up once we switched to struct bdev_handle. Before struct bdev_handle we > only stashed stuff in file->private_data if this was an exclusive open > but after struct bdev_handle we always set file->private_data to a > struct bdev_handle and so we had to use bdev_handle->mode or > bdev_handle->holder. Now that we don't use struct bdev_handle anymore we > can revert back to the old behavior. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Two small comments below. > diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c > index f56bdfe459de..a0bff2c0d88d 100644 > --- a/block/fops.c > +++ b/block/fops.c > @@ -569,7 +569,6 @@ static int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t end, > blk_mode_t file_to_blk_mode(struct file *file) > { > blk_mode_t mode = 0; > - struct bdev_handle *handle = file->private_data; > > if (file->f_mode & FMODE_READ) > mode |= BLK_OPEN_READ; > @@ -579,8 +578,8 @@ blk_mode_t file_to_blk_mode(struct file *file) > * do_dentry_open() clears O_EXCL from f_flags, use handle->mode to > * determine whether the open was exclusive for already open files. > */ ^^^ This comment needs update now... > - if (handle) > - mode |= handle->mode & BLK_OPEN_EXCL; > + if (file->private_data) > + mode |= BLK_OPEN_EXCL; > else if (file->f_flags & O_EXCL) > mode |= BLK_OPEN_EXCL; > if (file->f_flags & O_NDELAY) > @@ -601,12 +600,17 @@ static int blkdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) > { > struct block_device *bdev; > blk_mode_t mode; > - void *holder; > int ret; > > + /* > + * Use the file private data to store the holder for exclusive opens. > + * file_to_blk_mode relies on it being present to set BLK_OPEN_EXCL. > + */ > + if (filp->f_flags & O_EXCL) > + filp->private_data = filp; Well, if we have O_EXCL in f_flags here, then file_to_blk_mode() on the next line is going to do the right thing and set BLK_OPEN_EXCL even without filp->private_data. So this shound't be needed AFAICT. > mode = file_to_blk_mode(filp); > - holder = mode & BLK_OPEN_EXCL ? filp : NULL; > - ret = bdev_permission(inode->i_rdev, mode, holder); > + ret = bdev_permission(inode->i_rdev, mode, filp->private_data); > if (ret) > return ret; Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR