linux-kernel - [PATCH resend] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file

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Date:   Wed,  5 Oct 2016 16:38:54 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Subject: [PATCH resend] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a file opened ro

Instead of checking the mode of the file descriptor, let's check whether it
could have been opened rw.  This allows fixing intermittent exec failures
when deduping a live system: anyone trying to exec a file currently being
deduped gets ETXTBSY.

Issuing this ioctl on a ro file was already allowed for root/cap.

Tested on btrfs and not-yet-merged xfs, as only them implement this ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.de>
---
 fs/read_write.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 66215a7..8ea5297 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ int vfs_dedupe_file_range(struct file *file, struct file_dedupe_range *same)
 
 		if (info->reserved) {
 			info->status = -EINVAL;
-		} else if (!(is_admin || (dst_file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))) {
+		} else if (!(is_admin || !inode_permission(dst, MAY_WRITE))) {
 			info->status = -EINVAL;
 		} else if (file->f_path.mnt != dst_file->f_path.mnt) {
 			info->status = -EXDEV;
-- 
2.9.3