Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-12 Thread David Patrick Quigley
From: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has changed since the files were opened. Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fs/open.c |3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.22/Docu

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-12 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, David Patrick Quigley wrote: > From: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has > changed since the files were opened. > > Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: James Morris

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-12 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 08:56:30AM -0400, David Patrick Quigley wrote: > From: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Revalidate the write permissions for fallocate(2), in case security policy has > changed since the files were opened. Thanks for your patch! Will include it in the patchset. --

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-11 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:10:34PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > > +++ linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > > @@ -879,3 +879,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys32

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:10:34PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > > +++ linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > > @@ -879,3 +879,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys32

Re: [PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:50:00 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- linux-2.6.22.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > +++ linux-2.6.22/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c > @@ -879,3 +879,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys32_fadvise64(int fd, > return sys_fadvise64_64(fd, ((u64)offset_hi << 3

[PATCH 2/7] fallocate() implementation in i386, x86_64 and powerpc

2007-07-10 Thread Amit K. Arora
From: Amit Arora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_fallocate() implementation on i386, x86_64 and powerpc fallocate() is a new system call being proposed here which will allow applications to preallocate space to any file(s) in a file system. Each file system implementation that wants to use this feature w