The patch titled r/o bind mounts: mount_is_safe(): add comment has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is ro-bind-mounts-mount_is_safe-add-comment.patch This patch was dropped because Viro's comments sounded rather serious ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: r/o bind mounts: mount_is_safe(): add comment From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> This area of code is currently #ifdef'd out, so add a comment for the time when it is actually used. 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/namespace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/namespace.c~ro-bind-mounts-mount_is_safe-add-comment fs/namespace.c --- a/fs/namespace.c~ro-bind-mounts-mount_is_safe-add-comment +++ a/fs/namespace.c @@ -688,6 +688,10 @@ static int mount_is_safe(struct nameidat if (current->uid != nd->dentry->d_inode->i_uid) return -EPERM; } + /* + * We will eventually check for the mnt->writer_count here, + * but since the code is not used now, skip it - Dave Hansen + */ if (vfs_permission(nd, MAY_WRITE)) return -EPERM; return 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-acpi.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