Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: ZERO_RANGE and COLLAPSE_RANGE not currently supported

From: Lukáš Czerner
Date: Tue Jun 17 2014 - 03:58:52 EST


On Sun, 15 Jun 2014, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:28:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] tmpfs: ZERO_RANGE and COLLAPSE_RANGE not currently supported
>
> I was well aware of FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE and FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
> support being added to fallocate(); but didn't realize until now that
> I had been too stupid to future-proof shmem_fallocate() against new
> additions. -EOPNOTSUPP instead of going on to ordinary fallocation.

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v3.15
> ---
>
> mm/shmem.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> --- v3.15/mm/shmem.c 2014-06-08 11:19:54.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux/mm/shmem.c 2014-06-15 18:01:16.988996166 -0700
> @@ -1728,6 +1728,9 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
> pgoff_t start, index, end;
> int error;
>
> + if (mode & ~(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE))
> + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> +
> mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>
> if (mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) {
>
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