vfs: don't unnecessarily clone write access for writable fds
There's no need for mnt_want_write_file() to increment mnt_writers when
the file is already open for writing, provided that
mnt_drop_write_file() is changed to conditionally decrement it.
We seem to have ended up in the current situation because
mnt_want_write_file() used to be paired with mnt_drop_write(), due to
mnt_drop_write_file() not having been added yet. So originally
mnt_want_write_file() had to always increment mnt_writers.
But later mnt_drop_write_file() was added, and all callers of
mnt_want_write_file() were paired with it. This makes the compatibility
between mnt_want_write_file() and mnt_drop_write() no longer necessary.
Therefore, make __mnt_want_write_file() and __mnt_drop_write_file() skip
incrementing mnt_writers on files already open for writing. This
removes the only caller of mnt_clone_write(), so remove that too.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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