Most of the ioctl callback in file_ioctl should be done even for directories. For ext4 fiemap should work even for directories. Similarly FIGETBSZ should work for directories. For bmap filefrag command doesn't do the ioctl if the type is not a regular file. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ioctl.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c index ac2d47e..328b533 100644 --- a/fs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ioctl.c @@ -523,7 +523,8 @@ int do_vfs_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, break; default: - if (S_ISREG(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) + if (S_ISDIR(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode) || + S_ISREG(filp->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) error = file_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg); else error = vfs_ioctl(filp, cmd, arg); -- tg: (0882e8d..) dir_fiemap (depends on: master) -- 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