The patch titled Subject: vfs: dedupe should return EPERM if permission is not granted has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was vfs-dedupe-should-return-eperm-if-permission-is-not-granted.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx> Subject: vfs: dedupe should return EPERM if permission is not granted 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. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180910232118.14424-3-mfasheh@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/read_write.c~vfs-dedupe-should-return-eperm-if-permission-is-not-granted +++ a/fs/read_write.c @@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ int vfs_dedupe_file_range_one(struct fil if (ret < 0) goto out_drop_write; - ret = -EINVAL; + ret = -EPERM; if (!allow_file_dedupe(dst_file)) goto out_drop_write; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mfasheh@xxxxxxx are