Re: [PATCH] Check for immutable flag in fallocate path

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Feb 21 2011 - 07:46:43 EST


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 09:26:32AM +0100, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All fs must check for the immutable flag in their fallocate callback.
> It's possible to have a race condition in this scenario: an application
> open a file in read/write and it does something, meanwhile root set the
> immutable flag on the file, the application at that point can call
> fallocate with success. Only Ocfs2 check for the immutable flag at the
> moment.

Please add the check in fs/open.c:do_fallocate() so that it covers all
filesystems.

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