On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 04:16:26PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +1000, npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote: > > @@ -66,9 +68,10 @@ void ext2_delete_inode (struct inode * i > > mark_inode_dirty(inode); > > ext2_write_inode(inode, inode_needs_sync(inode)); > > > > + /* XXX: where is truncate_inode_pages? */ > > inode->i_size = 0; > > if (inode->i_blocks) > > - ext2_truncate (inode); > > + ext2_truncate_blocks(inode, 0); > > ext2_free_inode (inode); > > At the beginning of the function, just before the diff window. Because > this is ->delete_inode we truncate away all pages, down to offset 0. OK, weird. I thought I couldn't see it when I wrote that :) maybe my tree was corrupted or I'm stupid. > > +static void ext2_truncate_blocks(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset) > > +{ > > + /* > > + * XXX: it seems like a bug here that we don't allow > > + * IS_APPEND inode to have blocks-past-i_size trimmed off. > > + * review and fix this. > > + */ > > + if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || > > + S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) > > + return -EINVAL; > > + if (ext2_inode_is_fast_symlink(inode)) > > + return -EINVAL; > > + if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) > > + return -EPERM; > > + __ext2_truncate_blocks(inode, offset); > > Yes, I think the IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) checks should move > into ext2_setsize. But let's leave that for a separate patch. Yeah agreed. > Btw, the above code gives me warnings like this: > > /home/hch/work/linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c: In function > 'ext2_truncate_blocks': > /home/hch/work/linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c:1158: warning: 'return' with a > value, in function returning void > /home/hch/work/linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c:1160: warning: 'return' with a > value, in function returning void > /home/hch/work/linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c:1162: warning: 'return' with a > value, in function returning void > > because you try to return errors from a function delcared as void. Hm, sorry. I thought it was in good shape... I'll recheck that I sent out the correct versions and resend according to feedback from you and Hugh. Thanks, Nick -- 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