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author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2018-07-18 15:44:43 +0200 |
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committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2018-07-18 15:44:43 +0200 |
commit | 8cf9ee5061037accf61775f438ad7513576d4413 (patch) | |
tree | 6301abb5e6b1386103ea6c0dff437afd5f6ae6a8 /fs/open.c | |
parent | 4ab30319fd7c691a1b3165325c647a5cd6d282ac (diff) | |
download | lwn-8cf9ee5061037accf61775f438ad7513576d4413.tar.gz lwn-8cf9ee5061037accf61775f438ad7513576d4413.zip |
Revert "vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs"
This reverts commit 4d0c5ba2ff79ef9f5188998b29fd28fcb05f3667.
We now get write access on both overlay and underlying layers so this patch
is no longer needed for correct operation.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index a973ca074896..72bcae72bce9 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs, long vfs_truncate(const struct path *path, loff_t length) { struct inode *inode; - struct dentry *upperdentry; long error; inode = path->dentry->d_inode; @@ -91,17 +90,7 @@ long vfs_truncate(const struct path *path, loff_t length) if (IS_APPEND(inode)) goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; - /* - * If this is an overlayfs then do as if opening the file so we get - * write access on the upper inode, not on the overlay inode. For - * non-overlay filesystems d_real() is an identity function. - */ - upperdentry = d_real(path->dentry, NULL, O_WRONLY); - error = PTR_ERR(upperdentry); - if (IS_ERR(upperdentry)) - goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; - - error = get_write_access(upperdentry->d_inode); + error = get_write_access(inode); if (error) goto mnt_drop_write_and_out; @@ -120,7 +109,7 @@ long vfs_truncate(const struct path *path, loff_t length) error = do_truncate(path->dentry, length, 0, NULL); put_write_and_out: - put_write_access(upperdentry->d_inode); + put_write_access(inode); mnt_drop_write_and_out: mnt_drop_write(path->mnt); out: |