locks: eliminate false positive conflicts for write lease
check_conflicting_open() is checking for existing fd's open for read or for write before allowing to take a write lease. The check that was implemented using i_count and d_count is an approximation that has several false positives. For example, overlayfs since v4.19, takes an extra reference on the dentry; An open with O_PATH takes a reference on the dentry although the file cannot be read nor written. Change the implementation to use i_readcount and i_writecount to eliminate the false positive conflicts and allow a write lease to be taken on an overlayfs file. The change of behavior with existing fd's open with O_PATH is symmetric w.r.t. current behavior of lease breakers - an open with O_PATH currently does not break a write lease. This increases the size of struct inode by 4 bytes on 32bit archs when CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING is defined and CONFIG_IMA was not already defined. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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