[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Wake up mandatory locks waiter on chmod (v2)

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:54:56PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > 
> > It gets even better when you throw mmap() into the mix :-)
> 
> Hm.  Documentation/mandatory.txt claims that it mandatory locks and
> mmap() with MAP_SHARED exclude each other, but I can't see where that's
> enfoced.  That file doesn't make any mention of the above race.

I believe the locks_verify_locked() call from mm/mmap.c prevents
mmap'ing shared-write a file with mandatory locks in force;
and the mapping_writably_mapped() calls from fs/locks.c prevent
mandatory locking on a file while it's mmap'ed shared-write.

Though I think there's no lock to prevent those checks racing,
so it's not quite watertight.

Hugh