Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix check for fallocate on active swapfile

[Lukáš Czerner]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Eric Biggers wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:45:08 -0500
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] vfs: fix check for fallocate on active swapfile
> 
> Fix the broken check for calling sys_fallocate() on an active swapfile,
> introduced by commit 0790b31b69374ddadefe ("fs: disallow all fallocate
> operation on active swapfile").

Oops, good catch, Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/open.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index 36662d0..d6fd3ac 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -263,11 +263,10 @@ int do_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
>  		return -EPERM;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * We can not allow to do any fallocate operation on an active
> -	 * swapfile
> +	 * We cannot allow any fallocate operation on an active swapfile
>  	 */
>  	if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
> -		ret = -ETXTBSY;
> +		return -ETXTBSY;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Revalidate the write permissions, in case security policy has
> 
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