The VFS never calls setattr with ATTR_SIZE on anything but regular files. Remove the if check and turn it into an assert similar to what some other file systems do. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index 577a36f..141c9f4 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -505,7 +505,9 @@ nfs_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_MODE; if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) { - if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || attr->ia_size == i_size_read(inode)) + BUG_ON(!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)); + + if (attr->ia_size == i_size_read(inode)) attr->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_SIZE; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html