linux-ext4 - Re: [patch 06/11] ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention.

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:42:07 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	npiggin@...e.de
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/11] ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention.

  Hi,

> I also have commented a possible bug in existing ext2 code, marked with XXX.
  Looks good, except:

> +int ext2_setsize(struct inode *inode, loff_t newsize)
  This could be static.

> @@ -1459,8 +1540,15 @@ int ext2_setattr(struct dentry *dentry,
>  		if (error)
>  			return error;
>  	}
> -	error = inode_setattr(inode, iattr);
> +	if (iattr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
> +		error = ext2_setsize(inode, iattr->ia_size);
> +		if (error)
> +			return error;
> +	}
> +	generic_setattr(inode, iattr);
  Here, we should store the error code I suppose...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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