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Re: [PATCH] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a file opened ro

From Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a file opened ro
Date 2016-07-18 22:00 +0200
Message-ID <rWmRQ-26O-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:13:38AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Instead of checking the mode of the file descriptor, let's check whether it
> could have been opened rw.  This allows fixing intermittent exec failures
> when deduping a live system: anyone trying to exec a file currently being
> deduped gets ETXTBSY.
> 
> Issuing this ioctl on a ro file was already allowed for root/cap.
> 
> Tested on btrfs and not-yet-merged xfs, as only them implement this ioctl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>

Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de>
	--Mark

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[PATCH] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a file opened ro Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-07-18 00:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a  file opened ro Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-07-18 00:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a  file opened ro Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> - 2016-07-18 22:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a  file opened ro "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com> - 2016-07-19 04:50 +0200

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