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Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 46 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index e04f15ae4b0..d286cbc3f3e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -341,52 +341,6 @@ ok: return security_inode_exec_permission(inode, flags); } -/* - * get_write_access() gets write permission for a file. - * put_write_access() releases this write permission. - * This is used for regular files. - * We cannot support write (and maybe mmap read-write shared) accesses and - * MAP_DENYWRITE mmappings simultaneously. The i_writecount field of an inode - * can have the following values: - * 0: no writers, no VM_DENYWRITE mappings - * < 0: (-i_writecount) vm_area_structs with VM_DENYWRITE set exist - * > 0: (i_writecount) users are writing to the file. - * - * Normally we operate on that counter with atomic_{inc,dec} and it's safe - * except for the cases where we don't hold i_writecount yet. Then we need to - * use {get,deny}_write_access() - these functions check the sign and refuse - * to do the change if sign is wrong. Exclusion between them is provided by - * the inode->i_lock spinlock. - */ - -int get_write_access(struct inode * inode) -{ - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); - if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) < 0) { - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - return -ETXTBSY; - } - atomic_inc(&inode->i_writecount); - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - - return 0; -} - -int deny_write_access(struct file * file) -{ - struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode; - - spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); - if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) > 0) { - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - return -ETXTBSY; - } - atomic_dec(&inode->i_writecount); - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); - - return 0; -} - /** * path_get - get a reference to a path * @path: path to get the reference to |