[patch] ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention fix

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:06:59PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > > I also have commented a possible bug in existing ext2 code, marked with XXX.
> >   Looks good, except:
> > 
> > > +int ext2_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize)
> >   This could be static.
> > 
> > > @@ -1459,8 +1540,15 @@ int ext2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry,
> > >  		if (error)
> > >  			return error;
> > >  	}
> > > -	error = inode_setattr(inode, iattr);
> > > +	if (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
> > > +		error = ext2_setsize(inode, iattr->ia_size);
> > > +		if (error)
> > > +			return error;
> > > +	}
> > > +	generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
> >   Here, we should store the error code I suppose...
>   Ah, I was confused. generic_setattr() returns void. But then remove
> the check !error from:
>   if (!error && (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
> which just follows the generic_setattr(). That's what made me think
> generic_setattr() returns something :)

Yep, good suggestion. Andrew please add this incremental patch

---
 fs/ext2/inode.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -1546,7 +1546,7 @@ int ext2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry,
 			return error;
 	}
 	generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
-	if (!error && (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE))
+	if (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)
 		error = ext2_acl_chmod(inode);
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 
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