Re: [PATCH] Copy i_flags to ext3 inode flags on write (version 2)

[Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 12:38 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   attached is a second version of a patch that stores inode flags such as
> S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. from i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags when
> inode is written to disk. The same thing is done on GETFLAGS ioctl.
>   Quota code changes these flags on quota files (to make it harder for
> sysadmin to screw himself) and these changes were not correctly
> propagated into the filesystem (especially, lsattr did not show them and
> users were wondering...). Andrew, could you please put the patch into your
> queue? Thanks.

I think you need a call to ext3_get_inode_flags in one more place.  In
ext3_ioctl(), EXT3_IOC_SETFLAGS modifies the flags based on what is in
ei->i_flags, so this code should make sure that ei->i_flags is in sync
with inode->i_flags.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff -Nurp linux-orig/fs/ext3/ioctl.c linux/fs/ext3/ioctl.c
--- linux-orig/fs/ext3/ioctl.c	2007-04-24 10:04:50.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/fs/ext3/ioctl.c	2007-04-24 10:05:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ int ext3_ioctl (struct inode * inode, st
 			flags &= ~EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL;
 
 		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+		ext3_get_inode_flags(ei);
 		oldflags = ei->i_flags;
 
 		/* The JOURNAL_DATA flag is modifiable only by root */

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center