Re: Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client

[Trond Myklebust]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 07:02, Colin Paton wrote:

> In file: fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c modify nfs3_proc_access(). This calls the
> access RPC on the server. I added the following to the code:
> 
>             if (S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode) || S_ISCHR(inode->i_mode))
>                 {
>                     // Leave arg.access untouched.
>  
>                 }
> 
> ...so that the the MODIFY and EXTEND bits aren't set when writing to a
> block or character device.

Hmm... Why shouldn't the MODIFY bit at least be set if the user
requested write access to the device?

Cheers,
  Trond
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