The patch titled r/o bind mounts: sys_linkat(): elevate write count around vfs_link() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is ro-bind-mounts-sys_linkat-elevate-write-count-around-vfs_link.patch This patch was dropped because Viro's comments sounded rather serious ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: r/o bind mounts: sys_linkat(): elevate write count around vfs_link() From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/namei.c~ro-bind-mounts-sys_linkat-elevate-write-count-around-vfs_link fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~ro-bind-mounts-sys_linkat-elevate-write-count-around-vfs_link +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -2313,7 +2313,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_linkat(int olddfd, c error = PTR_ERR(new_dentry); if (IS_ERR(new_dentry)) goto out_unlock; + error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt); + if (error) + goto out_dput; error = vfs_link(old_nd.dentry, nd.dentry->d_inode, new_dentry); + mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt); +out_dput: dput(new_dentry); out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&nd.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-acpi.patch ro-bind-mounts-sys_linkat-elevate-write-count-around-vfs_link.patch ro-bind-mounts-mount_is_safe-add-comment.patch ro-bind-mounts-unix_find_other-elevate-write-count-for-touch_atime.patch ro-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-over-calls-to-vfs_rename.patch ro-bind-mounts-tricky-elevate-write-count-files-are-opened.patch ro-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-do_sys_truncate.patch ro-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes.patch ro-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_sys_utime-and-touch_atime.patch ro-bind-mounts-sys_mknodat-elevate-write-count-for-vfs_mknod-create.patch ro-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers.patch ro-bind-mounts-do_rmdir-elevate-write-count.patch ro-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-custom-struct-file.patch ro-bind-mounts-honor-r-w-changes-at-do_remount-time.patch page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch x86-e820-debugging.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html