From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: - ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch removed from -mm tree Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:36:41 -0700 Message-ID: <200806050536.m555afoJ027636@imap1.linux-foundation.org> To: duaneg@dghda.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41430 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751757AbYFEFgp (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2008 01:36:45 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch titled ext3: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: ext3: don't inherit inappropriate inode flags from parent From: "Duane Griffin" Fix the TOPDIR flag inheritance bug reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9866. Some file attributes have sticky behaviour in ext2/3 whereas I believe it should not. Namely, a directory marked with chattr +T serves "to be the top of directory hierarchies for the purposes of the Orlov block allocator", as the manpage says. It seems wrong that subdirectories stickily inherit the +T flag: they are obviously not top-level! Even files get the T attribute this way, even though the chattr manpages only documents it for directories. Also prevent inheritance of other flags that Andreas Dilger identified as inappropriate to inherit At present INDEX is the only flag that new ext3 inodes do NOT inherit from their parent. In addition prevent the flags DIRTY, ECOMPR, IMAGIC and TOPDIR from being inherited. Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/ext3/ialloc.c | 2 +- include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/ialloc.c~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent fs/ext3/ialloc.c --- a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent +++ a/fs/ext3/ialloc.c @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ got: ei->i_dir_start_lookup = 0; ei->i_disksize = 0; - ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & ~EXT3_INDEX_FL; + ei->i_flags = EXT3_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT3_FL_INHERITED; if (S_ISLNK(mode)) ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT3_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT3_APPEND_FL); /* dirsync only applies to directories */ diff -puN include/linux/ext3_fs.h~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent include/linux/ext3_fs.h --- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h~ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent +++ a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h @@ -178,6 +178,10 @@ struct ext3_group_desc #define EXT3_FL_USER_VISIBLE 0x0003DFFF /* User visible flags */ #define EXT3_FL_USER_MODIFIABLE 0x000380FF /* User modifiable flags */ +/* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */ +#define EXT3_FL_INHERITED ~(EXT3_DIRTY_FL | EXT3_ECOMPR_FL | EXT3_INDEX_FL |\ + EXT3_IMAGIC_FL | EXT3_TOPDIR_FL) + /* * Inode dynamic state flags */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from duaneg@dghda.com are jbd-replace-potentially-false-assertion-with-if-block.patch jbd-eliminate-duplicated-code-in-revocation-table-init-destroy-functions.patch jbd-tidy-up-revoke-cache-initialisation-and-destruction.patch ext3-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch ext4-dont-inherit-inappropriate-inode-flags-from-parent.patch