Commit 0d786d4a authored by Ulrich Drepper's avatar Ulrich Drepper Committed by Linus Torvalds

fallocate syscall interface deficiency

The fallocate syscall returns ENOSYS in case the filesystem does not support
the operation and expects the userlevel code to fill in.  This is good in
concept.

The problem is that the libc code for old kernels should be able to
distinguish the case where the syscall is not at all available vs not
functioning for a specific mount point.  As is this is not possible and we
always have to invoke the syscall even if the kernel doesn't support it.

I suggest the following patch.  Using EOPNOTSUPP is IMO the right thing to do.

Cc: Amit Arora <aarora@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4f640efb
...@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) ...@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->fallocate) if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->fallocate)
ret = inode->i_op->fallocate(inode, mode, offset, len); ret = inode->i_op->fallocate(inode, mode, offset, len);
else else
ret = -ENOSYS; ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
out_fput: out_fput:
fput(file); fput(file);
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