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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1205142237590.15448@pobox.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 22:42:58 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: remove floppy-specific O_EXCL handling
On Mon, 14 May 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Block layer now handles O_EXCL in a generic way for block devices.
> >
> > The semantics is however different for floppy and all other block devices,
> > as floppy driver contains its own O_EXCL handling.
> >
> > The semantics for all-but-floppy bdevs is "there can be at most one O_EXCL
> > open of this file", while for floppy bdev the semantics is "if someone has
> > the bdev open with O_EXCL, noone else can open it".
> >
> > Remove the floppy-specific handling and let the generic bdev code O_EXCL
> > handling take over.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
>
> Patch looks good to me
Thanks.
> but why do we want to change this at this point?
Because since
commit e525fd89d380c4a94c0d63913a1dd1a593ed25e7
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Date: Sat Nov 13 11:55:17 2010 +0100
block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access
mount of /dev/fd0 actually causes the fd0 block device be claimed with
_EXCL. Before this commit, you are able to mount /dev/fd0 and then open()
it afterward. After this commit you can't any more, because mounting
/dev/fd0 already passes O_EXCL to floppy_open(), and thus noone else can
open(/dev/fd0) any more.
My commit brings things back into shape, i.e. you can, equally to other
block devices, both mount it and open() it afterwards.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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