Re: [PATCH 1/2] Btrfs: fix permissions of empty files not affected by umask

[Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:40:08PM -0800, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> When a new file is created with btrfs_create(), the inode will initially be
> created with permissions 0666 and later on in btrfs_init_acl() it will be
> adapted to mask out the umask bits. The problem is that this change won't make
> it into the btrfs_inode unless there's another change to the inode (e.g. writing
> content changing the size or touching the file changing the mtime.)
> 
> This fix adds a call to btrfs_update_inode() to btrfs_create() to make sure that
> the change will not get lost if the in-memory inode is flushed before other
> changes are made to the file.
> 

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>

thanks,
liubo

> Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/inode.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> index 95542a1..caf9d76 100644
> --- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
> @@ -4996,6 +4996,12 @@ static int btrfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  	}
>  
> +	err = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
> +	if (err) {
> +		drop_inode = 1;
> +		goto out_unlock;
> +	}
> +
>  	/*
>  	* If the active LSM wants to access the inode during
>  	* d_instantiate it needs these. Smack checks to see
> -- 
> 1.7.11.7
> 
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