Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] fs: return EPERM on immutable inode

From	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] fs: return EPERM on immutable inode
Date	2016-08-02 14:40 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 07:58:28PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> 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.

Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Although maybe you'll have to split this into one patch per subsystems,
as otherwise no maintainer might be enticed to pick it up.

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Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] fs: return EPERM on immutable inode Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-08-02 14:40 +0200

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