Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] ioctl_ficlone03.c: Support test on more filesystems

[Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>]

Hi Jan, all,

> Hi!

> On Tue 22-07-25 12:23:46, Petr Vorel wrote:
> > ...
> > > >  static void setup(void)

> > > I find it strange that we manage to set the FS_IMMUTABLE_FL in the setup
> > > with the FS_IOC_SETFLAGS without any error. Maybe it would make sense to
> > > check with ext devs what is going on here.

> > > > @@ -117,6 +123,10 @@ static struct tst_test test = {
> > > >  			.mkfs_ver = "mkfs.xfs >= 1.5.0",
> > > >  			.mkfs_opts = (const char *const []) {"-m", "reflink=1", NULL},
> > > >  		},
> > > > +		{.type = "ext2"},
> > > > +		{.type = "ext3"},
> > > > +		{.type = "ext4"},
> > > > +		{.type = "tmpfs"},
> > > >  		{}

> > While I was working on extending [1] LTP ioctl_ficlone03.c to run on more
> > filesystems [2], I found that ext[2-4] don't support FS_IMMUTABLE_FL.

> Why do you think FS_IMMUTABLE_FL is unsupported? ext2 was the filesystem
> actually introducing it to the kernel ;)

Lol, I should have git grep kernel sources and google before asking silly
question :). Thanks for correcting me.

> > 	immut_fd = open(MNTPOINT"/immutable", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0640);
> > 	mnt_file = open(MNTPOINT"/file", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0640);
> > 	int attr = FS_IMMUTABLE_FL;
> > 	ioctl(immut_fd, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, &attr);
> > 	...

> > 	struct file_clone_range *clone_range;
> > 	ioctl(immut_fd, FICLONE, mnt_file),
> > 	ioctl(immut_fd, FICLONERANGE, clone_range),

> > The last two ioctl() with FICLONE and FICLONERANGE get errno EOPNOTSUPP
> > (instead of EPERM as on other fs). Cyril raised concern [3], why first
> > ioctl() FS_IOC_SETFLAGS even works. Shouldn't it also gets EINVAL as
> > vfat, exfat and ntfs get?

> Unlink FICLONE and FICLONERANGE which are indeed unsupported on any ext?
> based filesystem so EOPNOTSUPP seems like a correct answer to me.
> So I'm confused where you see a problem.

Thanks for info, obviously there is no problem now :).
I'll amend the commit message before merge that FICLONE and FICLONERANGE are not
supported (not FS_IMMUTABLE_FL).

Kind regards,
Petr

> 								Honza