From: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] allow rename to "--bind"-mounted filesystem
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:34:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030118233459.GA18011@ally.lammerts.org> (raw)
Hi,
I just discovered that rename(2) does not allow you to rename a file within
the same filesystem if there is a "--bind" in the way. For example:
# mkdir mydir
# mount --bind . mydir
# touch myfile
# strace -erename perl -e 'rename "myfile", "mydir/myfile2"'
rename("myfile", "mydir/myfile2") = -1 EXDEV (Invalid cross-device link)
IMHO it should be possible to do a rename in this situation.
I propose to remove the check in do_rename() altogether. It shouldn't be
necessary, since there's also a check for a cross-device rename in
vfs_rename_dir() and vfs_rename_other().
Patch below has been tested.
Eric
--- linux-2.4.21-pre3/fs/namei.c.orig 2003-01-18 23:56:46.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.4.21-pre3/fs/namei.c 2003-01-18 23:57:30.000000000 +0100
@@ -1860,10 +1860,6 @@
if (error)
goto exit1;
- error = -EXDEV;
- if (oldnd.mnt != newnd.mnt)
- goto exit2;
-
old_dir = oldnd.dentry;
error = -EBUSY;
if (oldnd.last_type != LAST_NORM)
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