From: Dave Hansen Some new uses of get_empty_filp() have crept in, and are not properly taking mnt_want_write()s. This fixes them up. We really need to kill get_empty_filp(). Cc: Erez Zadok Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: "J Bruce Fields" Acked-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/anon_inodes.c | 16 ++++++---------- fs/file_table.c | 6 ++++++ fs/pipe.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/anon_inodes.c~fix-up-new-filp-allocators fs/anon_inodes.c --- a/fs/anon_inodes.c~fix-up-new-filp-allocators +++ a/fs/anon_inodes.c @@ -81,13 +81,10 @@ int anon_inode_getfd(int *pfd, struct in if (IS_ERR(anon_inode_inode)) return -ENODEV; - file = get_empty_filp(); - if (!file) - return -ENFILE; error = get_unused_fd(); if (error < 0) - goto err_put_filp; + return error; fd = error; /* @@ -114,14 +111,15 @@ int anon_inode_getfd(int *pfd, struct in dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED; d_instantiate(dentry, anon_inode_inode); - file->f_path.mnt = mntget(anon_inode_mnt); - file->f_path.dentry = dentry; + error = -ENFILE; + file = alloc_file(anon_inode_mnt, dentry, + FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE, fops); + if (!file) + goto err_put_unused_fd; file->f_mapping = anon_inode_inode->i_mapping; file->f_pos = 0; file->f_flags = O_RDWR; - file->f_op = fops; - file->f_mode = FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE; file->f_version = 0; file->private_data = priv; @@ -134,8 +132,6 @@ int anon_inode_getfd(int *pfd, struct in err_put_unused_fd: put_unused_fd(fd); -err_put_filp: - put_filp(file); return error; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(anon_inode_getfd); diff -puN fs/file_table.c~fix-up-new-filp-allocators fs/file_table.c --- a/fs/file_table.c~fix-up-new-filp-allocators +++ a/fs/file_table.c @@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int /* Find an unused file structure and return a pointer to it. * Returns NULL, if there are no more free file structures or * we run out of memory. + * + * Be very careful using this. You are responsible for + * getting write access to any mount that you might assign + * to this filp, if it is opened for write. If this is not + * done, you will imbalance int the mount's writer count + * and a warning at __fput() time. */ struct file *get_empty_filp(void) { diff -puN fs/pipe.c~fix-up-new-filp-allocators fs/pipe.c --- a/fs/pipe.c~fix-up-new-filp-allocators +++ a/fs/pipe.c @@ -957,13 +957,10 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(void) struct dentry *dentry; struct qstr name = { .name = "" }; - f = get_empty_filp(); - if (!f) - return ERR_PTR(-ENFILE); err = -ENFILE; inode = get_pipe_inode(); if (!inode) - goto err_file; + goto err; err = -ENOMEM; dentry = d_alloc(pipe_mnt->mnt_sb->s_root, &name); @@ -978,22 +975,24 @@ struct file *create_write_pipe(void) */ dentry->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_UNHASHED; d_instantiate(dentry, inode); - f->f_path.mnt = mntget(pipe_mnt); - f->f_path.dentry = dentry; + + err = -ENFILE; + f = alloc_file(pipe_mnt, dentry, FMODE_WRITE, &write_pipe_fops); + if (!f) + goto err_dentry; f->f_mapping = inode->i_mapping; f->f_flags = O_WRONLY; - f->f_op = &write_pipe_fops; - f->f_mode = FMODE_WRITE; f->f_version = 0; return f; + err_dentry: + dput(dentry); err_inode: free_pipe_info(inode); iput(inode); - err_file: - put_filp(f); + err: return ERR_PTR(err); } _