On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Some ioctl()s can cause writes to the filesystem. Take
> > these, and make them use mnt_want/drop_write() instead.
> >
> > We need to pass the filp one layer deeper in XFS, but
> > somebody _just_ pulled it out in February because nobody
> > was using it, so I don't feel guilty for adding it back.
>
> Note that -mm's ext2-reservations.patch adds EXT2_IOC_SETRSVSZ,
> and it doesn't do mnt_want_write().
That doesn't quite apply to mainline (at least after the patches I just
sent). I'll wait and send you one on top of the next -mm so that I can
get a coherent view of what's going on if that's all right.
-- Dave
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