Revert "vfs: do get_write_access() on upper layer of overlayfs"

This reverts commit 4d0c5ba2ff.

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 <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Miklos Szeredi 2018-07-18 15:44:43 +02:00
commit 8cf9ee5061
2 changed files with 3 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -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: