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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-09-08 17:55:54 -0700
commit9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6 (patch)
tree704c3e5dcc10f360815c4868a74711f82fb62e27 /fs/namespace.c
parentbbb20089a3275a19e475dbc21320c3742e3ca423 (diff)
parent80ffb3cceaefa405f2ecd46d66500ed8d53efe74 (diff)
Merge commit 'md/for-linus' into async-tx-next
Conflicts: drivers/md/raid5.c
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 3dc283fd471..7230787d18b 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/mnt_namespace.h>
#include <linux/namei.h>
+#include <linux/nsproxy.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/ramfs.h>
@@ -315,7 +316,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mnt_clone_write);
*/
int mnt_want_write_file(struct file *file)
{
- if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
+ if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) || special_file(inode->i_mode))
return mnt_want_write(file->f_path.mnt);
else
return mnt_clone_write(file->f_path.mnt);