The patch titled r/o bind mounts: elevate mnt writers for vfs_unlink() callers has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: r/o bind mounts: elevate mnt writers for vfs_unlink() callers From: Dave Hansen <hansendc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++++ ipc/mqueue.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -2177,7 +2177,11 @@ static long do_unlinkat(int dfd, const c inode = dentry->d_inode; if (inode) atomic_inc(&inode->i_count); + error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt); + if (error) + goto exit2; error = vfs_unlink(nd.dentry->d_inode, dentry); + mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt); exit2: dput(dentry); } diff -puN ipc/mqueue.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers ipc/mqueue.c --- a/ipc/mqueue.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers +++ a/ipc/mqueue.c @@ -749,8 +749,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mq_unlink(const char inode = dentry->d_inode; if (inode) atomic_inc(&inode->i_count); - + err = mnt_want_write(mqueue_mnt); + if (err) + goto out_err; err = vfs_unlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry); + mnt_drop_write(mqueue_mnt); out_err: dput(dentry); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hansendc@xxxxxxxxxx are r-o-bind-mounts-filesystem-helpers-for-custom-struct-files.patch r-o-bind-mounts-add-vfsmount-writer-counts.patch r-o-bind-mounts-record-when-sb_writer_count-elevated-for-inode.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-callers-of-vfs_mkdir.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-during-entire-ncp_ioctl.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-link-and-symlink-calls.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mount-count-for-extended-attributes.patch r-o-bind-mounts-mount_is_safe-add-comment.patch r-o-bind-mounts-unix_find_other-elevate-write-count-for-touch_atime.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-over-calls-to-vfs_rename.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-files-are-opened.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-do_sys_truncate.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_sys_utime-and-touch_atime.patch r-o-bind-mounts-sys_mknodat-elevate-write-count-for-vfs_mknod-create.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-mnt-writers-for-vfs_unlink-callers.patch r-o-bind-mounts-do_rmdir-elevate-write-count.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-custom-struct_file.patch r-o-bind-mounts-gfs-check-nlink-count.patch r-o-bind-mounts-honor-r-w-changes-at-do_remount-time.patch r-o-bind-mounts-kill-open-files-traverse-on-remount-ro.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