Re: [PATCH 1/5] vfs: create a generic checking and prep function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS
Al Viro <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:02:02 +0100
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 07:32:10PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > From: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]> > > Create a generic function to check incoming FS_IOC_SETFLAGS flag values > and later prepare the inode for updates so that we can standardize the > implementations that follow ext4's flag values. Change in efivarfs behaviour deserves a note. I'm not saying it's wrong, but behaviour is changed there - no-op FS_IOC_SETFLAGS used to fail without CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE...