The patch titled ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ext4-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: ext4: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent From: "Duane Griffin" <duaneg@xxxxxxxxx> At present INDEX and EXTENTS are the only flags that new ext4 inodes do NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, IMAGIC, TOPDIR, HUGE_FILE and EXT_MIGRATE 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/ext4/ext4.h | 8 ++++++++ fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext4/ext4.h~ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent fs/ext4/ext4.h --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h~ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent +++ a/fs/ext4/ext4.h @@ -247,6 +247,14 @@ struct flex_groups { #define EXT4_FL_USER_VISIBLE 0x000BDFFF /* User visible flags */ #define EXT4_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE 0x000B80FF /* User modifiable flags */ +/* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */ +#define EXT4_FL_INHERITED (EXT4_SECRM_FL | EXT4_UNRM_FL | EXT4_COMPR_FL |\ + EXT4_SYNC_FL | EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL | EXT4_APPEND_FL |\ + EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL |\ + EXT4_COMPRBLK_FL | EXT4_NOCOMPR_FL |\ + EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL | EXT4_NOTAIL_FL|\ + EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL) + /* * Inode dynamic state flags */ diff -puN fs/ext4/ialloc.c~ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent fs/ext4/ialloc.c --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c~ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent +++ a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ got: * newly created directory and file only if -o extent mount option is * specified */ - ei->i_flags = EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & ~(EXT4_INDEX_FL|EXT4_EXTENTS_FL); + ei->i_flags = EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_FL_INHERITED; if (S_ISLNK(mode)) ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT4_APPEND_FL); /* dirsync only applies to directories */ _ 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