From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/21] procfs: drop vmtruncate
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:02:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5088111F.1020009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121024151208.GB24318@infradead.org>
Il 24/10/2012 17:12, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 02:17:33PM +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote:
>> Removed vmtruncate
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
>
> As Al pointed out we probably shouldn't even allow truncate on procfs.
> Can look into refusing it instead, please?
>
>
Mmmm...for example the command "truncate --size=100 config.gz" is a nop,
so it seems to me it makes no sense to support the size change, but I
don't know if there are other use cases. However, should we return EPERM
in case of size change checking it before inode_change_ok()?
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-20 12:17 [PATCH 04/21] procfs: drop vmtruncate Marco Stornelli
2012-10-24 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-24 16:02 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
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2012-12-15 10:48 Marco Stornelli
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