On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:13:37AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
quoted text
> -	error = -EPERM;
> -	if (IS_APPEND(inode))
> -		goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;
> -
>  	error = get_write_access(inode);
>  	if (error)
>  		goto mnt_drop_write_and_out;

errno change and worse than that - we
	a) get different errno with append-only file mmaped shared
	b) break_lease() happening, despite the file being append-only

quoted text
> @@ -321,10 +317,6 @@ static long do_sys_ftruncate(unsigned in
>  	if (small && length > MAX_NON_LFS)
>  		goto out_putf;
>  
> -	error = -EPERM;
> -	if (IS_APPEND(inode))
> -		goto out_putf;
> -
>  	error = locks_verify_truncate(inode, file, length);

Again, errno change...

quoted text
> @@ -1639,8 +1639,6 @@ int may_open(struct nameidata *nd, int a
>  	if (IS_APPEND(inode)) {
>  		if  ((flag & FMODE_WRITE) && !(flag & O_APPEND))
>  			return -EPERM;
> -		if (flag & O_TRUNC)
> -			return -EPERM;
>  	}

Bogus break_lease() following that...
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