[PATCH] Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag

Introduce FMODE_EXEC file flag, to indicate that file is being opened for
execution.  This is useful for distributed filesystems to maintain
consistent behavior for returning ETXTBUSY when opening for write and
execution happens on different nodes.

akpm:

  Needed by Lustre at present.  I assume their objective to to work towards
  being able to install Lustre on an unmodified distro kernel, which seems
  sane.  It should have zero runtime cost.

  Trond and Chuck indicate that NFS4 can probably use this too, for the same
  thing.

  Steven says it's also on the GFS todo list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 0b515ac53134..d8c477a56257 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_uselib(const char __user * library)
         struct nameidata nd;
         int error;
 
-        error = __user_path_lookup_open(library, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd, FMODE_READ);
+        error = __user_path_lookup_open(library, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd, FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC);
         if (error)
                 goto out;
 
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ struct file *open_exec(const char *name)
         int err;
         struct file *file;
 
-        err = path_lookup_open(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd, FMODE_READ);
+        err = path_lookup_open(AT_FDCWD, name, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &nd, FMODE_READ|FMODE_EXEC);
         file = ERR_PTR(err);
 
         if (!err) {