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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-10 13:04:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-10 13:04:49 -0700
commitabb5a14fa20fdd400995926134b7be9eb8ce6048 (patch)
tree085add41cae3193b8c8293d25b453fd1ecae0c19 /Documentation
parent911f9dab301e8583143c7e75b552eadd434ea0a8 (diff)
parente55f1d1d13e7f1c364672d667d78fd1f640ab9f9 (diff)
Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted misc bits and pieces. There are several single-topic branches left after this (rename2 series from Miklos, current_time series from Deepa Dinamani, xattr series from Andreas, uaccess stuff from from me) and I'd prefer to send those separately" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (39 commits) proc: switch auxv to use of __mem_open() hpfs: support FIEMAP cifs: get rid of unused arguments of CIFSSMBWrite() posix_acl: uapi header split posix_acl: xattr representation cleanups fs/aio.c: eliminate redundant loads in put_aio_ring_file fs/internal.h: add const to ns_dentry_operations declaration compat: remove compat_printk() fs/buffer.c: make __getblk_slow() static proc: unsigned file descriptors fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors fs: compat: remove redundant check of nr_segs cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2] cifs: don't use memcpy() to copy struct iov_iter get rid of separate multipage fault-in primitives fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() ceph: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index b1bd05ea66b2..ab320c77147a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -287,8 +287,8 @@ implementing on-disk size changes. Start with a copy of the old inode_setattr
and vmtruncate, and the reorder the vmtruncate + foofs_vmtruncate sequence to
be in order of zeroing blocks using block_truncate_page or similar helpers,
size update and on finally on-disk truncation which should not fail.
-inode_change_ok now includes the size checks for ATTR_SIZE and must be called
-in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally.
+setattr_prepare (which used to be inode_change_ok) now includes the size checks
+for ATTR_SIZE and must be called in the beginning of ->setattr unconditionally.
[mandatory]