'seals' is set to 'F_SEAL_SEAL' in shmem_get_inode, which means "prevent further seals from being set", thus sealing API will be useless and many code in shmem.c will never be reached. For example: shmem_setattr if ((newsize < oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_SHRINK)) || (newsize > oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW))) return -EPERM; So, initialize 'seals' to zero is more reasonable. Signed-off-by: yu kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 165fa6332993..7b032b347bda 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2256,7 +2256,6 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode memset(info, 0, (char *)inode - (char *)info); spin_lock_init(&info->lock); atomic_set(&info->stop_eviction, 0); - info->seals = F_SEAL_SEAL; info->flags = flags & VM_NORESERVE; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->shrinklist); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->swaplist); -- 2.17.2