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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-07-18 15:44:43 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2018-07-18 15:44:43 +0200
commit8cf9ee5061037accf61775f438ad7513576d4413 (patch)
tree6301abb5e6b1386103ea6c0dff437afd5f6ae6a8 /fs/open.c
parent4ab30319fd7c691a1b3165325c647a5cd6d282ac (diff)
Revert "vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs"
This reverts commit 4d0c5ba2ff79ef9f5188998b29fd28fcb05f3667. We now get write access on both overlay and underlying layers so this patch is no longer needed for correct operation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c15
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index a973ca074896..72bcae72bce9 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length, unsigned int time_attrs,
long vfs_truncate(const struct path *path, loff_t length)
{
struct inode *inode;
- struct dentry *upperdentry;
long error;
inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
@@ -91,17 +90,7 @@ long vfs_truncate(const struct path *path, loff_t length)
if (IS_APPEND(inode))
goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;
- /*
- * If this is an overlayfs then do as if opening the file so we get
- * write access on the upper inode, not on the overlay inode. For
- * non-overlay filesystems d_real() is an identity function.
- */
- upperdentry = d_real(path->dentry, NULL, O_WRONLY);
- error = PTR_ERR(upperdentry);
- if (IS_ERR(upperdentry))
- goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;
-
- error = get_write_access(upperdentry->d_inode);
+ error = get_write_access(inode);
if (error)
goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;
@@ -120,7 +109,7 @@ long vfs_truncate(const struct path *path, loff_t length)
error = do_truncate(path->dentry, length, 0, NULL);
put_write_and_out:
- put_write_access(upperdentry->d_inode);
+ put_write_access(inode);
mnt_drop_write_and_out:
mnt_drop_write(path->mnt);
out: