Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:42:25 +0100 | From | Marco Stornelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3][RESEND] Check for immutable/append flag in fallocate path |
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Il 05/03/2011 11:10, Marco Stornelli ha scritto: > From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> > > In the fallocate path the kernel doesn't check for the immutable/append > flag. It's possible to have a race condition in this scenario: an > application open a file in read/write and it does something, meanwhile > root set the immutable flag on the file, the application at that point > can call fallocate with success. In addition, we don't allow to do any > unreserve operation on an append only file but only the reserve one. > > Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Al, can you apply this patch please? I add Greg in cc, because maybe he could be interested about stable tree.
Marco
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