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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: bfields@redhat.com
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: setattr ATTR_SIZE vs the rest
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:54:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1485104060-15209-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> (raw)

Hi Bruce,

I've got a report that there NFS clients that send SETATTR requests that
mix size changes with uid/gid changes (see the recent pynfs patch for an
artifical reproducer).  At least XFS and GFS2 are very unhappy with this,
and other file systems also don't seem to handle the case correctly.

This patch splits the truncate processing in NFS out into a separate
->setattr call and uses the vfs_truncate helper for it, which also happens
to shrink the NFSD code size by reusing more VFS boiler plate code.

I suspect in the mid-term we really should add a ->truncate method (different
from the previous callback of the same name) to separate the two concepts
clearly at the VFS level.


             reply	other threads:[~2017-01-22 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22 16:54 Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-01-22 16:54 ` [PATCH] nfsd: special case truncates some more Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 12:21   ` Jeff Layton
2017-01-23 12:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 15:36       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 15:52         ` Jeff Layton
2017-01-23 16:05           ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-23 16:14             ` Jeff Layton
2017-01-23 16:20             ` Trond Myklebust
2017-01-23 16:26               ` hch
2017-01-23 17:25                 ` Trond Myklebust
2017-01-23 17:38                   ` hch
2017-01-23 17:42                     ` Trond Myklebust
2017-01-24 16:25                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-01-24 22:02           ` J. Bruce Fields
2017-01-23 16:58 ` setattr ATTR_SIZE vs the rest J. Bruce Fields
2017-01-24  7:52   ` Christoph Hellwig

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