On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 10:37 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > --- lxc/fs/namei.c~numa_mnt_want_write 2007-06-25 11:05:50.000000000 -0700 > > +++ lxc-dave/fs/namei.c 2007-06-25 11:05:50.000000000 -0700 > > @@ -230,10 +230,12 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int > > int retval, submask; > > > > if (mask & MAY_WRITE) { > > - > > /* > > - * Nobody gets write access to a read-only fs. > > + * If this WARN_ON() is hit, it likely means that > > + * there was a missed mnt_want_write() on the path > > + * leading here. > > */ > > + WARN_ON(__mnt_is_readonly(nd->mnt)); > > if (IS_RDONLY(inode) && > > I might be missing something, but wouldn't this trip an > > access("/foo/bar", W_OK); > > On a readonly filesystem? Yes, it will. I will re-work it a bit. -- Dave - 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