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fnctl: f_modown should call write_lock_irqsave/restore
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Commit 7036251 exposed that f_modown()
should call write_lock_irqsave instead of just write_lock_irq so that
because a caller could have a spinlock held and it would not be good to
renable interrupts.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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gregkh authored and torvalds committed Jan 27, 2010
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions fs/fcntl.c
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Expand Up @@ -199,7 +199,9 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
int force)
{
write_lock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
unsigned long flags;

write_lock_irqsave(&filp->f_owner.lock, flags);
if (force || !filp->f_owner.pid) {
put_pid(filp->f_owner.pid);
filp->f_owner.pid = get_pid(pid);
Expand All @@ -211,7 +213,7 @@ static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
filp->f_owner.euid = cred->euid;
}
}
write_unlock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock);
write_unlock_irqrestore(&filp->f_owner.lock, flags);
}

int __f_setown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type,
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