Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ioctl bug? | Date | Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:39:59 -0600 (MDT) |
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Gary writes: > I think I have found a bug in the kernel. > > starting with 2.4.5ac23 and continuing through both 2.4.6 and > 2.v.6-ac2 Whenever I try to do a lsattr or chattr on a directory > I get: > > "Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags"
Yet another case of Linux pro-active bug-fixing. I have already sent a patch for this to Linus and Alan. It seems I CC'd ext2-devel, but not linux-kernel.
Here is the patch again. It was likely caused by Al Viro's major overhaul of the ext2 directory code, to move it into the page cache.
Cheers, Andreas =========================================================================== --- linux-2.4.6.orig/fs/ext2/dir.c Thu Jun 28 14:28:24 2001 +++ linux-2.4.6-aed/fs/ext2/dir.c Tue Jul 10 22:59:12 2001 @@ -576,5 +576,6 @@ struct file_operations ext2_dir_operations = { read: generic_read_dir, readdir: ext2_readdir, + ioctl: ext2_ioctl, fsync: ext2_sync_file, }; -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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