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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/kernfs/file.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/file.c b/fs/kernfs/file.c index e9df2f87072c..8502ef68459b 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/file.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/file.c @@ -636,11 +636,18 @@ static int kernfs_fop_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) * each file a separate locking class. Let's differentiate on * whether the file has mmap or not for now. * - * Both paths of the branch look the same. They're supposed to + * For similar reasons, writable and readonly files are given different + * lockdep key, because the writable file /sys/power/resume may call vfs + * lookup helpers for arbitrary paths and readonly files can be read by + * overlayfs from vfs helpers when sysfs is a lower layer of overalyfs. + * + * All three cases look the same. They're supposed to * look that way and give @of->mutex different static lockdep keys. */ if (has_mmap) mutex_init(&of->mutex); + else if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) + mutex_init(&of->mutex); else mutex_init(&of->mutex); |