Hi,
In open.c:do_truncate(), the call to notify_change() is protected by
the inode->i_sem, which seems to me useless, and thus can be removed.
BTW, I also removed the useless inode pointer and error local variables.
Comments ?
-Eric
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*** linux-2.4.0-test8/fs/open.c Sat Aug 12 00:16:21 2000
--- /tmp/open.c Fri Sep 15 13:34:21 2000
***************
*** 68,87 ****
int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length)
{
- struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- int error;
struct iattr newattrs;
/* Not pretty: "inode->i_size" shouldn't really be signed. But it is. */
if (length < 0)
return -EINVAL;
- down(&inode->i_sem);
newattrs.ia_size = length;
newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;
! error = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
! up(&inode->i_sem);
! return error;
}
static inline long do_sys_truncate(const char * path, loff_t length)
--- 68,82 ----
int do_truncate(struct dentry *dentry, loff_t length)
{
struct iattr newattrs;
/* Not pretty: "inode->i_size" shouldn't really be signed. But it is. */
if (length < 0)
return -EINVAL;
newattrs.ia_size = length;
newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME;
! return notify_change(dentry, &newattrs);
}
static inline long do_sys_truncate(const char * path, loff_t length)
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