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Re: [PATCH] fs: return EPERM on immutable inode

To: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: return EPERM on immutable inode
From: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 06:44:30 +1000
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bob Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxx>, Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "supporter:XFS FILESYSTEM" <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "open list:GFS2 FILE SYSTEM" <cluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>, open list <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 09:28:10PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> In most cases, EPERM is returned on immutable inode, and there're only
> a few places returning EACCES. And EPERM looks more reasonable to me.
> 
> So converting all EACCES to EPERM on immutable inode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> I noticed this when running LTP on overlayfs, setxattr03 failed due to
> unexpected EACCES on immutable inode.

This should be in the commit message itself, rather than "EPERM
looks more reasonable".

Other than that, change seems fine to me.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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