10 files changed, 0 insertions, 78 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
index c2353bf059fd..175a8b99c196 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/ppc6xx_defconfig
@@ -1244,7 +1244,6 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
-CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
 # CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR is not set
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig b/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig
index 139a8308070c..fdee37fab81c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK=y
 CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
-CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
 CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=60
diff --git a/arch/s390/configs/default_defconfig b/arch/s390/configs/default_defconfig
index e0af2ee58751..3f538468a86e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/configs/default_defconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/configs/default_defconfig
@@ -550,7 +550,6 @@ CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS=y
-CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS=y
diff --git a/arch/sh/configs/rsk7203_defconfig b/arch/sh/configs/rsk7203_defconfig
index 4e5229b0c5bb..47236573db83 100644
--- a/arch/sh/configs/rsk7203_defconfig
+++ b/arch/sh/configs/rsk7203_defconfig
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
-CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SG=y
 CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
index 4f233204faf9..711f8aa14743 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/iss_defconfig
@@ -627,7 +627,6 @@ CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is not set
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/configs/s6105_defconfig b/arch/xtensa/configs/s6105_defconfig
index d929f77a0360..78318a76fa16 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/configs/s6105_defconfig
+++ b/arch/xtensa/configs/s6105_defconfig
@@ -569,7 +569,6 @@ CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is not set
 CONFIG_DEBUG_NOMMU_REGIONS=y
-# CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST is not set
 # CONFIG_DEBUG_SG is not set
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 79ecae62209a..ee20658a0647 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ static void file_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
 static inline void file_free(struct file *f)
 {
        percpu_counter_dec(&nr_files);
-        file_check_state(f);
        call_rcu(&f->f_u.fu_rcuhead, file_free_rcu);
 }
@@ -186,7 +185,6 @@ struct file *alloc_file(struct path *path, fmode_t mode,
         * that we can do debugging checks at __fput()
         */
        if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && !special_file(path->dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
-                file_take_write(file);
                WARN_ON(mnt_clone_write(path->mnt));
        }
        if ((mode & (FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE)) == FMODE_READ)
@@ -213,10 +211,7 @@ static void drop_file_write_access(struct file *file)
                return;
        put_write_access(inode);
-        if (file_check_writeable(file) != 0)
-                return;
        __mnt_drop_write(mnt);
-        file_release_write(file);
 }
 /* the real guts of fput() - releasing the last reference to file
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 2ed7325f713e..8d0b6adfe7b8 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -683,7 +683,6 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
                error = __get_file_write_access(inode, f->f_path.mnt);
                if (error)
                        goto cleanup_file;
-                file_take_write(f);
        }
        f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping;
@@ -731,14 +730,7 @@ cleanup_all:
        fops_put(f->f_op);
        if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
                if (!special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
-                        /*
-                         * We don't consider this a real
-                         * mnt_want/drop_write() pair
-                         * because it all happenend right
-                         * here, so just reset the state.
-                         */
                        put_write_access(inode);
-                        file_reset_write(f);
                        __mnt_drop_write(f->f_path.mnt);
                }
        }
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 23b2a35d712e..e80659ed78fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -769,9 +769,6 @@ static inline int ra_has_index(struct file_ra_state *ra, pgoff_t index)
                index <  ra->start + ra->size);
 }
-#define FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN    1
-#define FILE_MNT_WRITE_RELEASED 2
 struct file {
        union {
                struct llist_node       fu_llist;
@@ -809,9 +806,6 @@ struct file {
        struct list_head        f_tfile_llink;
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_EPOLL */
        struct address_space    *f_mapping;
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
-        unsigned long f_mnt_write_state;
-#endif
 } __attribute__((aligned(4)));  /* lest something weird decides that 2 is OK */
 struct file_handle {
@@ -829,49 +823,6 @@ static inline struct file *get_file(struct file *f)
 #define fput_atomic(x)  atomic_long_add_unless(&(x)->f_count, -1, 1)
 #define file_count(x)   atomic_long_read(&(x)->f_count)
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
-static inline void file_take_write(struct file *f)
-{
-        WARN_ON(f->f_mnt_write_state != 0);
-        f->f_mnt_write_state = FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN;
-}
-static inline void file_release_write(struct file *f)
-{
-        f->f_mnt_write_state |= FILE_MNT_WRITE_RELEASED;
-}
-static inline void file_reset_write(struct file *f)
-{
-        f->f_mnt_write_state = 0;
-}
-static inline void file_check_state(struct file *f)
-{
-        /*
-         * At this point, either both or neither of these bits
-         * should be set.
-         */
-        WARN_ON(f->f_mnt_write_state == FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN);
-        WARN_ON(f->f_mnt_write_state == FILE_MNT_WRITE_RELEASED);
-}
-static inline int file_check_writeable(struct file *f)
-{
-        if (f->f_mnt_write_state == FILE_MNT_WRITE_TAKEN)
-                return 0;
-        printk(KERN_WARNING "writeable file with no "
-                            "mnt_want_write()\n");
-        WARN_ON(1);
-        return -EINVAL;
-}
-#else /* !CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT */
-static inline void file_take_write(struct file *filp) {}
-static inline void file_release_write(struct file *filp) {}
-static inline void file_reset_write(struct file *filp) {}
-static inline void file_check_state(struct file *filp) {}
-static inline int file_check_writeable(struct file *filp)
-{
-        return 0;
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_WRITECOUNT */
 #define MAX_NON_LFS     ((1UL<<31) - 1)
 /* Page cache limit. The filesystems should put that into their s_maxbytes 
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index a48abeac753f..7a0859314bdf 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1030,16 +1030,6 @@ config DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
          of the BUG call as well as the EIP and oops trace.  This aids
          debugging but costs about 70-100K of memory.
-config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT
-        bool "Debug filesystem writers count"
-        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
-        help
-          Enable this to catch wrong use of the writers count in struct
-          vfsmount.  This will increase the size of each file struct by
-          32 bits.
-          If unsure, say N.
 config DEBUG_LIST
        bool "Debug linked list manipulation"
        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL