linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

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Date:	Tue, 09 Jan 2007 11:39:38 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org, viro@....linux.org.uk, torvalds@...l.org,
	mhalcrow@...ibm.com, David Quigley <dquigley@...sunysb.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 13:26 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Yes, making fs readonly at VFS level would not work for already opened
> files. But you if you create new union, you could lock down the
> filesystems you are unioning (via s_umount semaphore), go through lists
> of all open fd's on those filesystems and check whether they are open
> for write or not. If some fd is open for writing, you simply fail to
> create the union (and it's upto user to solve the problem). Otherwise
> you mark filesystems as RO and safely proceed with creating the union.
> I guess you must have come up with this solution. So what is the problem
> with it?

Aside from the fact that this is racy (s_umount doesn't protect you
against a process opening a new file while you are busy running through
the open fds to see if you can reset the MS_RDONLY flag) all you will
have achieved is ensure that your client won't write to the file. You
will still be able to Oops.

  Trond

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