linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 17:34:47 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: Convert ext4 to new truncate calling convention

On Wed 25-05-11 09:45:36, Ted Tso wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:43:08AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >  int ext4_can_truncate(struct inode *inode)
> >  {
> > -	if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
> > -		return 0;
> 
> I agree this change is correct, but I noticed that at the VFS level,
> the ftruncate() path doesn't seem to check for IS_APPEND() and
> IS_IMMUTABLE().  Am I missing something?  Fixing that should be a
> separate patch, of course, but it does seem to be a problem.
  It does check it - IMMUTABLE file cannot be open for writing so cannot
be ftruncated, APPEND file is checked in do_sys_ftruncate() AFAICS.


								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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