Re: [PATCH v2] Check for immutable flag in fallocate path

Marco Stornelli
2011-03-14T10:51:44Z

2011/3/14 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:39:03AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> WTF?  Why does append mode have any effect on whether we can punch
>> holes in a file or not? There's no justification for adding this in
>> the commit message. Why is it even in a patch that is for checking
>> immutable inodes? What is the point of adding it, when all that will
>> happen is people will switch to XFS_IOC_UNRESVSP which has never had
>> this limitation?
>
> xfs_ioc_space unconditionally rejects inodes with S_APPEND set for
> all preallocation / hole punching ioctls.  This might be overzealous for
> preallocations not changing the size, or just extending i_size, but it's
> IMHO entirely correct for hole punching.
>

xfs_ioc_space is in the ioctl path, but we are talking about the
fallocate path. Both of them calls the xfs_change_file_space, isnt'it?
However we are agree about hole punching, the patch is already in
Linus's git tree.

Marco