Re: [PATCH 1/4] vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS

David Sterba <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:12:54 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.jfs.general
Message-ID <20190625171254.GT8917__38680.023657956$1561482755$gmane$org@twin.jikos.cz>
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 04:56:21PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
> 
> Create a generic checking function for the incoming FS_IOC_SETFLAGS flag
> values so that we can standardize the implementations that follow ext4's
> flag values.

I checked a few samples what's the type of the flags, there are unsigned
types while the proposed VFS functions take signed type.

> +int vfs_ioc_setflags_check(struct inode *inode, int oldflags, int flags);

Specifically ext4 uses unsigned type and his was the original API that
got copied so I'd think that it should unsigned everywhere.

>  fs/btrfs/ioctl.c    |   13 +++++--------

For the btrfs bits

Acked-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>

and besides the signedness, the rest of the changes look good to me.