[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] ioctl_ficlone03.c: Support test on more filesystems
Jan Kara
jack@suse.cz
Tue Jul 22 13:41:35 CEST 2025
Hi!
On Tue 22-07-25 12:23:46, Petr Vorel wrote:
> ...
> > > static void setup(void)
>
> > I find it strange that we manage to set the FS_IMMUTABLE_FL in the setup
> > with the FS_IOC_SETFLAGS without any error. Maybe it would make sense to
> > check with ext devs what is going on here.
>
> > > @@ -117,6 +123,10 @@ static struct tst_test test = {
> > > .mkfs_ver = "mkfs.xfs >= 1.5.0",
> > > .mkfs_opts = (const char *const []) {"-m", "reflink=1", NULL},
> > > },
> > > + {.type = "ext2"},
> > > + {.type = "ext3"},
> > > + {.type = "ext4"},
> > > + {.type = "tmpfs"},
> > > {}
>
> While I was working on extending [1] LTP ioctl_ficlone03.c to run on more
> filesystems [2], I found that ext[2-4] don't support FS_IMMUTABLE_FL.
Why do you think FS_IMMUTABLE_FL is unsupported? ext2 was the filesystem
actually introducing it to the kernel ;)
> immut_fd = open(MNTPOINT"/immutable", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0640);
> mnt_file = open(MNTPOINT"/file", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0640);
> int attr = FS_IMMUTABLE_FL;
> ioctl(immut_fd, FS_IOC_SETFLAGS, &attr);
> ...
>
> struct file_clone_range *clone_range;
> ioctl(immut_fd, FICLONE, mnt_file),
> ioctl(immut_fd, FICLONERANGE, clone_range),
>
> The last two ioctl() with FICLONE and FICLONERANGE get errno EOPNOTSUPP
> (instead of EPERM as on other fs). Cyril raised concern [3], why first
> ioctl() FS_IOC_SETFLAGS even works. Shouldn't it also gets EINVAL as
> vfat, exfat and ntfs get?
Unlink FICLONE and FICLONERANGE which are indeed unsupported on any ext?
based filesystem so EOPNOTSUPP seems like a correct answer to me.
So I'm confused where you see a problem.
Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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