The patch titled r-o-bind-mounts: elevate write count for do_utimes has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: r-o-bind-mounts: elevate write count for do_utimes From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Now includes fix for oops seen by akpm. "never let a libc developer write your kernel code" - hch "nor, apparently, a kernel developer" - akpm Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/utimes.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/utimes.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes fs/utimes.c --- a/fs/utimes.c~r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes +++ a/fs/utimes.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #include <linux/file.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/linkage.h> +#include <linux/mount.h> #include <linux/namei.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/stat.h> @@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil struct inode *inode; struct iattr newattrs; struct file *f = NULL; + struct vfsmount *mnt; error = -EINVAL; if (times && (!nsec_valid(times[0].tv_nsec) || @@ -79,18 +81,20 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil if (!f) goto out; dentry = f->f_path.dentry; + mnt = f->f_path.mnt; } else { error = __user_walk_fd(dfd, filename, (flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) ? 0 : LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd); if (error) goto out; dentry = nd.dentry; + mnt = nd.mnt; } inode = dentry->d_inode; - error = -EROFS; - if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) + error = mnt_want_write(mnt); + if (error) goto dput_and_out; /* Don't worry, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */ @@ -98,7 +102,7 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil if (times) { error = -EPERM; if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) - goto dput_and_out; + goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; if (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT) newattrs.ia_valid &= ~ATTR_ATIME; @@ -118,22 +122,24 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, char __user *fil } else { error = -EACCES; if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) - goto dput_and_out; + goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; if (!is_owner_or_cap(inode)) { if (f) { if (!(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)) - goto dput_and_out; + goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; } else { error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_WRITE); if (error) - goto dput_and_out; + goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; } } } mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); error = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs); mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); +mnt_drop_write_and_out: + mnt_drop_write(mnt); dput_and_out: if (f) fput(f); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from haveblue@xxxxxxxxxx are enable-hotplug-memory-remove-for-ppc64.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-do_utimes.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-file_update_time.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-link-and-symlink-calls.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-some-ioctls.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-opened-files.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-over-calls-to-vfs_rename.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-chown-and-friends.patch r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-writer-count-for-do_sys_truncate.patch r-o-bind-mounts-make-access-use-mnt-check.patch r-o-bind-mounts-nfs-check-mnt-instead-of-superblock-directly.patch r-o-bind-mounts-sys_mknodat-elevate-write-count-for-vfs_mknod-create.patch r-o-bind-mounts-track-number-of-mount-writers.patch r-o-bind-mounts-honor-r-w-changes-at-do_remount-time.patch keep-track-of-mnt_writer-state-of-struct-file.patch create-file_drop_write_access-helper.patch fix-up-new-filp-allocators.patch reiser4.patch page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.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