On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:17:55AM +0000, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > On 10/07/2020 12:06, David Sterba wrote: > > +static int check_fsflags(unsigned int old_flags, unsigned int flags) > > { > > if (flags & ~(FS_IMMUTABLE_FL | FS_APPEND_FL | \ > > FS_NOATIME_FL | FS_NODUMP_FL | \ > > @@ -174,9 +177,19 @@ static int check_fsflags(unsigned int flags) > > FS_NOCOW_FL)) > > return -EOPNOTSUPP; > > > > + /* COMPR and NOCOMP on new/old are valid */ > > if ((flags & FS_NOCOMP_FL) && (flags & FS_COMPR_FL)) > > return -EINVAL; > > > > + if ((flags & FS_COMPR_FL) && (flags & FS_NOCOW_FL)) > > + return -EINVAL; > > + > > + /* NOCOW and compression options are mutually exclusive */ > > + if ((old_flags & FS_NOCOW_FL) && (flags & (FS_COMPR_FL | FS_NOCOMP_FL))) > > + return -EINVAL; > > + if ((flags & FS_NOCOW_FL) && (old_flags & (FS_COMPR_FL | FS_NOCOMP_FL))) > > + return -EINVAL; > > + > > > If we'd pass in fs_info to check_fsflags() we could also validate against mount options > which are incompatible with inode flags. Like -o nodatacow and FS_COMPR_FL or > -o auth_key and FS_NOCOW_FL. Same question was asked on IRC too, mount options are independent and take lower precedence than the inode attributes. A scenario where user wants to set a nodatacow attribute when the filesystem is mounted with compress= is valid and can be quite common.