[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: debugging for missed calls

There have been a few oopses caused by 'struct file's with NULL f_vfsmnts.
There was also a set of potentially missed mnt_want_write()s from
dentry_open() calls.

This patch provides a very simple debugging framework to catch these kinds of
bugs.  It will WARN_ON() them, but should stop us from having any oopses or
mnt_writer count imbalances.

I'm quite convinced that this is a good thing because it found bugs in the
stuff I was working on as soon as I wrote it.

[hch: made it conditional on a debug option.
      But it's still a little bit too ugly]

[hch: merged forced remount r/o fix from Dave and akpm's fix for the fix]

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 01d5c40e9119..1f8f05ede437 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -579,6 +579,9 @@ retry:
                 if (!(f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
                         continue;
                 f->f_mode &= ~FMODE_WRITE;
+                if (file_check_writeable(f) != 0)
+                        continue;
+                file_release_write(f);
                 mnt = mntget(f->f_path.mnt);
                 file_list_unlock();
                 /*