linux-kernel - [PATCH] overlay: Call ovl_drop_write() earlier in ovl_dentry

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Date:	Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:21:32 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, miklos@...redi.hu
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] overlay: Call ovl_drop_write() earlier in ovl_dentry_open()

Call ovl_drop_write() earlier in ovl_dentry_open() before we call vfs_open()
as we've done the copy up for which we needed the freeze-write lock by that
point.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
---

 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |   14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
index ce1f349642ab..8a9c32f8f4f9 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -343,31 +343,25 @@ static int ovl_dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 	int err;
 	struct path realpath;
 	enum ovl_path_type type;
-	bool want_write = false;
 
 	type = ovl_path_real(dentry, &realpath);
 	if (ovl_open_need_copy_up(file->f_flags, type, realpath.dentry)) {
-		want_write = true;
 		err = ovl_want_write(dentry);
 		if (err)
-			goto out;
+			return err;
 
 		if (file->f_flags & O_TRUNC)
 			err = ovl_copy_up_last(dentry, NULL, true);
 		else
 			err = ovl_copy_up(dentry);
+		ovl_drop_write(dentry);
 		if (err)
-			goto out_drop_write;
+			return err;
 
 		ovl_path_upper(dentry, &realpath);
 	}
 
-	err = vfs_open(&realpath, d_backing_inode(realpath.dentry), file, cred);
-out_drop_write:
-	if (want_write)
-		ovl_drop_write(dentry);
-out:
-	return err;
+	return vfs_open(&realpath, d_backing_inode(realpath.dentry), file, cred);
 }
 
 static const struct inode_operations ovl_file_inode_operations = {

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