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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2009-09-21 12:09:22 +0300
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2009-09-21 12:09:22 +0300
commit7cce2f4cb7f5f641f78c8e3eea4e7b1b96cb71c0 (patch)
treeb064d077928cf224660ab1e1841cdab2c9fd8b08 /fs/namespace.c
parente055f7e873d900925c222cf2d1ec955af4a9ca90 (diff)
parentebc79c4f8da0f92efa968e0328f32334a2ce80cf (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into linux-next
Conflicts: fs/ubifs/super.c Merge the upstream tree in order to resolve a conflict with the per-bdi writeback changes from the linux-2.6-block tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 277c28a63ea..7230787d18b 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -316,7 +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);