From: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/namei.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff -puN fs/namei.c~r-o-bind-mounts-write-counts-for-link-symlink fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~r-o-bind-mounts-write-counts-for-link-symlink +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -2366,7 +2366,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_symlinkat(const char if (IS_ERR(dentry)) goto out_unlock; + error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt); + if (error) + goto out_dput; error = vfs_symlink(nd.path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, from, S_IALLUGO); + mnt_drop_write(nd.path.mnt); +out_dput: dput(dentry); out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); @@ -2461,7 +2466,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_linkat(int olddfd, c error = PTR_ERR(new_dentry); if (IS_ERR(new_dentry)) goto out_unlock; + error = mnt_want_write(nd.path.mnt); + if (error) + goto out_dput; error = vfs_link(old_nd.path.dentry, nd.path.dentry->d_inode, new_dentry); + mnt_drop_write(nd.path.mnt); +out_dput: dput(new_dentry); out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); _