Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] fs: return EPERM on immutable inode
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Aug 02 2016 - 08:30:18 EST
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 07:58:28PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> In most cases, EPERM is returned on immutable inode, and there're only a
> few places returning EACCES. I noticed this when running LTP on
> overlayfs, setxattr03 failed due to unexpected EACCES on immutable
> inode.
>
> So converting all EACCES to EPERM on immutable inode.
Looks fine,
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Although maybe you'll have to split this into one patch per subsystems,
as otherwise no maintainer might be enticed to pick it up.