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Message-Id: <200711100236.lAA2aaV2017025@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 21:36:36 -0500
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	ezk@...sunysb.edu, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] create file_drop_write_access() helper 

In message <20071109210439.122065A3@...nel>, Dave Hansen writes:
> 
> These should fix the bug that Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
> reported:
> 
> Stopping RPC idmapd:
> 
> kernel: __fput() of writeable file with no mnt_want_write()
> kernel: WARNING: at fs/file_table.c:262 __fput()
> kernel:  [<c010283e>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x12/0x25
> kernel:  [<c0103042>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
> ...
> 
> The actual bug was a missed mnt_want_write() when a
> filp was allocated with get_empty_filp() and then
> made writable.  Using alloc_file(), instead, fixes
> that.
[...]

I can confirm that this patch fixes the bug I reported earlier today.

Thanks,
Erez.
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