[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] ioctl_ficlone03.c: Support test on more filesystems
Petr Vorel
pvorel@suse.cz
Tue Jul 22 15:50:49 CEST 2025
Hi Jan, all,
> 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 ;)
Lol, I should have git grep kernel sources and google before asking silly
question :). Thanks for correcting me.
> > 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.
Thanks for info, obviously there is no problem now :).
I'll amend the commit message before merge that FICLONE and FICLONERANGE are not
supported (not FS_IMMUTABLE_FL).
Kind regards,
Petr
> Honza
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