[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: create helper to drop file write access

If someone decides to demote a file from r/w to just
r/o, they can use this same code as __fput().

NFS does just that, and will use this in the next
patch.

AV: drop write access in __fput() only after we evict from file list.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 986ff4ed0a7c..3f73eb1f195a 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -211,6 +211,23 @@ void fput(struct file *file)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fput);
 
+/**
+ * drop_file_write_access - give up ability to write to a file
+ * @file: the file to which we will stop writing
+ *
+ * This is a central place which will give up the ability
+ * to write to @file, along with access to write through
+ * its vfsmount.
+ */
+void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file)
+{
+        struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
+        struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+
+        put_write_access(inode);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drop_file_write_access);
+
 /* __fput is called from task context when aio completion releases the last
  * last use of a struct file *.  Do not use otherwise.
  */
@@ -236,10 +253,10 @@ void __fput(struct file *file)
         if (unlikely(S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_cdev != NULL))
                 cdev_put(inode->i_cdev);
         fops_put(file->f_op);
-        if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
-                put_write_access(inode);
         put_pid(file->f_owner.pid);
         file_kill(file);
+        if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
+                drop_file_write_access(file);
         file->f_path.dentry = NULL;
         file->f_path.mnt = NULL;
         file_free(file);
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index bcb97d8e8b8b..81a75f3081f4 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 #include <linux/sunrpc/svc.h>
 #include <linux/nfsd/nfsd.h>
 #include <linux/nfsd/cache.h>
+#include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
@@ -1239,7 +1240,7 @@ static inline void
 nfs4_file_downgrade(struct file *filp, unsigned int share_access)
 {
         if (share_access & NFS4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE) {
-                put_write_access(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
+                drop_file_write_access(filp);
                 filp->f_mode = (filp->f_mode | FMODE_READ) & ~FMODE_WRITE;
         }
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index 7239baac81a9..653477021e4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *filp_cachep;
 
 extern void __fput(struct file *);
 extern void fput(struct file *);
+extern void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file);
 
 struct file_operations;
 struct vfsmount;