Re: [patch 14/15] vfs: utimes immutable fix

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 07:14:29 EST


On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:54:55AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
>
> If updating file times to the current time and using a file
> descriptor, then don't check for immutable inode, only if the file is
> opened for write. In this case immutability has been checked at open
> time. This is the same as how write() and ftruncate() are handled.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/utimes.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/utimes.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/utimes.c 2008-05-05 11:29:28.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/utimes.c 2008-05-05 11:29:28.000000000 +0200
> @@ -110,9 +110,6 @@ static int do_fd_utimes(int fd, struct t
> struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
>
> error = -EACCES;
> - if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode))
> - goto out_fput;
> -

Looks good, but please re-order it before the cleanup so we can put it
in for .26.

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