[patch 13/22] elevate write count for link and symlink calls

Cedric Le Goater clg at fr.ibm.com
Thu Jun 7 08:25:40 PDT 2007


From: Dave Hansen <hansendc at us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <hansendc at us.ibm.com>
---

---
 fs/namei.c |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Index: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-robindmount/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-robindmount.orig/fs/namei.c
+++ 2.6.22-rc4-mm2-robindmount/fs/namei.c
@@ -2296,7 +2296,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_symlinkat(const char
 	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_dput;
 	error = vfs_symlink(nd.dentry->d_inode, dentry, from, S_IALLUGO);
+	mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt);
+out_dput:
 	dput(dentry);
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&nd.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
@@ -2391,7 +2396,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_linkat(int olddfd, c
 	error = PTR_ERR(new_dentry);
 	if (IS_ERR(new_dentry))
 		goto out_unlock;
+	error = mnt_want_write(nd.mnt);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_dput;
 	error = vfs_link(old_nd.dentry, nd.dentry->d_inode, new_dentry);
+	mnt_drop_write(nd.mnt);
+out_dput:
 	dput(new_dentry);
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&nd.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);

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