[PATCH 01/23] rearrange may_open() to be r/o friendly

[Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>]

may_open() calls vfs_permission() before it does checks for
IS_RDONLY(inode).  It checks _again_ inside of vfs_permission().

The check inside of vfs_permission() is going away eventually.
With the mnt_want/drop_write() functions, all of the r/o
checks (except for this one) are consistently done before
calling permission().  Because of this, I'd like to use
permission() to hold a debugging check to make sure that
the mnt_want/drop_write() calls are actually being made.

So, to do this:
1. remove the IS_RDONLY() check from permission()
2. enforce that you must mnt_want_write() before
   even calling permission()
3. enable a debugging in permission()

We need to rearrange may_open().  Here's the patch.

---

 lxc-dave/fs/namei.c |   14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/namei.c~rearrange-permission-and-ro-checks-in-may_open fs/namei.c
--- lxc/fs/namei.c~rearrange-permission-and-ro-checks-in-may_open	2007-07-10 12:46:01.000000000 -0700
+++ lxc-dave/fs/namei.c	2007-07-10 12:46:01.000000000 -0700
@@ -228,6 +228,10 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int 
 {
 	umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
 	int retval, submask;
+	struct vfsmount *mnt = NULL;
+
+	if (nd)
+		mnt = nd->mnt;
 
 	if (mask & MAY_WRITE) {
 
@@ -252,7 +256,7 @@ int permission(struct inode *inode, int 
 	 * the fs is mounted with the "noexec" flag.
 	 */
 	if ((mask & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(mode) && (!(mode & S_IXUGO) ||
-			(nd && nd->mnt && (nd->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))))
+			(mnt && (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))))
 		return -EACCES;
 
 	/* Ordinary permission routines do not understand MAY_APPEND. */
@@ -1546,10 +1550,6 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
 	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (flag & FMODE_WRITE))
 		return -EISDIR;
 
-	error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
 	/*
 	 * FIFO's, sockets and device files are special: they don't
 	 * actually live on the filesystem itself, and as such you
@@ -1564,6 +1564,10 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
 		flag &= ~O_TRUNC;
 	} else if (IS_RDONLY(inode) && (flag & FMODE_WRITE))
 		return -EROFS;
+
+	error = vfs_permission(nd, acc_mode);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
 	/*
 	 * An append-only file must be opened in append mode for writing.
 	 */
_
-
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