Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: Prevent doing FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE on append only file

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 03:09:42PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 08:19:35 -0700
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> >     linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fs: Prevent doing FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE on append only
> >      file
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 08:57:43PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > >  	/*
> > > -	 * It's not possible to punch hole or perform collapse range
> > > -	 * on append only file
> > > +	 * It's not possible to punch hole, perform collapse range
> > > +	 * or zero range on append only file
> > >  	 */
> > > -	if (mode & (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE)
> > > +	if (mode & (FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE |
> > > +		    FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE)
> > 
> > Might be better to make this a negative test fo the operation that is
> > allowed on an appen only file.  That's also much better future proof.
> > 
> 
> True, it might be better to do it this way:
> 
> if (mode & ~FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE && IS_APPEND(inode))

if ((mode & ~FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) && IS_APPEND(inode))

:)

Cheers,

Dave.
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