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| author | Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com> | 2016-08-02 19:58:28 +0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-08-07 10:03:31 -0400 |
| commit | 337684a1746f93ae107e05d90977b070bb7e39d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1922204c16c1b9a8a54cecb8d3512f2b46a2695b /fs/namei.c | |
| parent | fe64f3283fb315e3d8f2b78785a86904a852ca82 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-337684a1746f93ae107e05d90977b070bb7e39d8.tar.gz lwn-337684a1746f93ae107e05d90977b070bb7e39d8.zip | |
fs: return EPERM on immutable inode
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.
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index c386a329ab20..adb04146df09 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ int __inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) * Nobody gets write access to an immutable file. */ if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) - return -EACCES; + return -EPERM; /* * Updating mtime will likely cause i_uid and i_gid to be |