On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:12:18PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > On Thu 10-05-18 16:13:58, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > The Linux VFS does not allow a way to set append/immuttable > > attributes to symlinks, this is just not possible. If this is > > detected inform the user as the filesystem must be corrupted. > > > > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Looks good to me. You can add: > > Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Applied into the ext4 tree after verifying that e2fsck already handles this case: % e2fsck -fy /tmp/foo.img e2fsck 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Special (device/socket/fifo/symlink) file (inode 13) has immutable or append-only flag set. Clear? yes (The btrfs and xfs maintainers might want to make a similar check before accepting their respective patches.) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
