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diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 6022f44043f2..5852bd6afbe4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -54,24 +54,30 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define MAY_ACCESS 16
#define MAY_OPEN 32
+/*
+ * flags in file.f_mode. Note that FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE must correspond
+ * to O_WRONLY and O_RDWR via the strange trick in __dentry_open()
+ */
+
/* file is open for reading */
#define FMODE_READ ((__force fmode_t)1)
/* file is open for writing */
#define FMODE_WRITE ((__force fmode_t)2)
/* file is seekable */
#define FMODE_LSEEK ((__force fmode_t)4)
-/* file can be accessed using pread/pwrite */
+/* file can be accessed using pread */
#define FMODE_PREAD ((__force fmode_t)8)
-#define FMODE_PWRITE FMODE_PREAD /* These go hand in hand */
+/* file can be accessed using pwrite */
+#define FMODE_PWRITE ((__force fmode_t)16)
/* File is opened for execution with sys_execve / sys_uselib */
-#define FMODE_EXEC ((__force fmode_t)16)
+#define FMODE_EXEC ((__force fmode_t)32)
/* File is opened with O_NDELAY (only set for block devices) */
-#define FMODE_NDELAY ((__force fmode_t)32)
+#define FMODE_NDELAY ((__force fmode_t)64)
/* File is opened with O_EXCL (only set for block devices) */
-#define FMODE_EXCL ((__force fmode_t)64)
+#define FMODE_EXCL ((__force fmode_t)128)
/* File is opened using open(.., 3, ..) and is writeable only for ioctls
(specialy hack for floppy.c) */
-#define FMODE_WRITE_IOCTL ((__force fmode_t)128)
+#define FMODE_WRITE_IOCTL ((__force fmode_t)256)
/*
* Don't update ctime and mtime.