Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfs: iversion truncate bug fix

[Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 12:54 +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> When a file is truncated with truncate()/ftruncate() and then closed,
> iversion is not updated. This patch uses ATTR_SIZE flag as an indication
> to increment iversion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>

Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> 
(Stable should be cc'ed on this patch.)

thanks,

Mimi

> ---
>  fs/attr.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
> index 7ee7ba4..b8f55c4 100644
> --- a/fs/attr.c
> +++ b/fs/attr.c
> @@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
>  			return -EPERM;
>  	}
> 
> +	if ((ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) && IS_I_VERSION(inode)) {
> +		if (attr->ia_size != inode->i_size)
> +			inode_inc_iversion(inode);
> +	}
> +
>  	if ((ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) {
>  		mode_t amode = attr->ia_mode;
>  		/* Flag setting protected by i_mutex */