The patch titled ext3: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> At present INDEX is the only flag that new ext3 inodes do NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, IMAGIC and TOPDIR from being inherited. List inheritable flags explicitly to prevent future flags from accidentally being inherited. This fixes the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxx> Cc: <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext3/ialloc.c | 2 +- include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/ialloc.c~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent fs/ext3/ialloc.c --- a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent +++ a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ got: ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0; ei->i_disksize = 0; - ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & ~EXT3_INDEX_FL; + ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED; if (S_ISLNK(mode)) ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT3_APPEND_FL); /* dirsync only applies to directories */ diff -puN include/linux/ext3_fs.h~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent include/linux/ext3_fs.h --- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent +++ a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h @@ -178,6 +178,13 @@ struct ext3_group_desc #define EXT3_FL_USER_VISIBLE 0x0003DFFF /* User visible flags */ #define EXT3_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE 0x000380FF /* User modifiable flags */ +/* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */ +#define EXT3_FL_INHERITED (EXT3_SECRM_FL | EXT3_UNRM_FL | EXT3_COMPR_FL |\ + EXT3_SYNC_FL | EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL | EXT3_APPEND_FL |\ + EXT3_NODUMP_FL | EXT3_NOATIME_FL | EXT3_COMPRBLK_FL|\ + EXT3_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT3_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\ + EXT3_NOTAIL_FL | EXT3_DIRSYNC_FL) + /* * Inode dynamic state flags */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from duaneg@xxxxxxxxx are ext2-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch ext2-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch ext3-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch ext4-tighten-restrictions-on-inode-flags.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html