chown/chmod,etc... don't call permission in the same way that the normal "open for write" calls do. They still write to the filesystem, so bump the write count during these operations. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lxc-dave/fs/open.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/open.c~06-24-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends fs/open.c --- lxc/fs/open.c~06-24-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends 2007-06-21 23:23:16.000000000 -0700 +++ lxc-dave/fs/open.c 2007-06-21 23:23:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -508,12 +508,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int audit_inode(NULL, inode); - err = -EROFS; - if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) + err = mnt_want_write(file->f_vfsmnt); + if (err) goto out_putf; err = -EPERM; if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode)) - goto out_putf; + goto out_drop_write; mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); if (mode == (mode_t) -1) mode = inode->i_mode; @@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int err = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs); mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); +out_drop_write: + mnt_drop_write(file->f_vfsmnt); out_putf: fput(file); out: @@ -541,13 +543,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, co goto out; inode = nd.dentry->d_inode; - error = -EROFS; - if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) + error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt); + if (error) goto dput_and_out; error = -EPERM; if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode)) - goto dput_and_out; + goto out_drop_write; mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); if (mode == (mode_t) -1) @@ -557,6 +559,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, co error = notify_change(nd.dentry, &newattrs); mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); +out_drop_write: + mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt); dput_and_out: path_release(&nd); out: @@ -579,9 +583,6 @@ static int chown_common(struct dentry * printk(KERN_ERR "chown_common: NULL inode\n"); goto out; } - error = -EROFS; - if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) - goto out; error = -EPERM; if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode)) goto out; @@ -611,7 +612,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_chown(const char __u error = user_path_walk(filename, &nd); if (error) goto out; + error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt); + if (error) + goto out_release; error = chown_common(nd.dentry, user, group); + mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt); +out_release: path_release(&nd); out: return error; @@ -631,7 +637,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchownat(int dfd, co error = __user_walk_fd(dfd, filename, follow, &nd); if (error) goto out; + error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt); + if (error) + goto out_release; error = chown_common(nd.dentry, user, group); + mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt); +out_release: path_release(&nd); out: return error; @@ -645,7 +656,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_lchown(const char __ error = user_path_walk_link(filename, &nd); if (error) goto out; + error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt); + if (error) + goto out_release; error = chown_common(nd.dentry, user, group); + mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt); +out_release: path_release(&nd); out: return error; @@ -662,9 +678,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fchown(unsigned int if (!file) goto out; + error = mnt_want_write(file->f_vfsmnt); + if (error) + goto out_fput; dentry = file->f_path.dentry; audit_inode(NULL, dentry->d_inode); error = chown_common(dentry, user, group); + mnt_drop_write(file->f_vfsmnt); +out_fput: fput(file); out: return error; _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html