Right now we return EINVAL if a process does not have permission to dedupe a
file. This was an oversight on my part. EPERM gives a true description of
the nature of our error, and EINVAL is already used for the case that the
filesystem does not support dedupe.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/read_write.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 77986a2e2a3b..8edef43a182c 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -2038,7 +2038,7 @@ int vfs_dedupe_file_range(struct file *file, struct file_dedupe_range *same)
info->status = -EINVAL;
} else if (!(is_admin || (dst_file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) ||
uid_eq(current_fsuid(), dst->i_uid))) {
- info->status = -EINVAL;
+ info->status = -EPERM;
} else if (file->f_path.mnt != dst_file->f_path.mnt) {
info->status = -EXDEV;
} else if (S_ISDIR(dst->i_mode)) {
--
2.15.1
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