linux-ext4 - [PATCH 04/11] fuse2fs: better debugging for file mode updates

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Message-ID: <176169818293.1430380.15266861328722867108.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:14:25 -0700
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To: tytso@....edu
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, joannelkoong@...il.com, bernd@...ernd.com,
 neal@...pa.dev, miklos@...redi.hu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 04/11] fuse2fs: better debugging for file mode updates

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...nel.org>

Improve the tracing of a chmod operation so that we can debug file mode
updates.

Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
---
 fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c |   10 ++++++----
 misc/fuse2fs.c    |   12 +++++++-----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


diff --git a/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c b/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c
index 74b262b293eabc..7570950ca2458d 100644
--- a/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c
+++ b/fuse4fs/fuse4fs.c
@@ -3908,6 +3908,7 @@ static int fuse4fs_chmod(struct fuse4fs *ff, fuse_req_t req, ext2_ino_t ino,
 			 mode_t mode, struct ext2_inode_large *inode)
 {
 	const struct fuse_ctx *ctxt = fuse_req_ctx(req);
+	mode_t new_mode;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	dbg_printf(ff, "%s: ino=%d mode=0%o\n", __func__, ino, mode);
@@ -3934,11 +3935,12 @@ static int fuse4fs_chmod(struct fuse4fs *ff, fuse_req_t req, ext2_ino_t ino,
 			mode &= ~S_ISGID;
 	}
 
-	inode->i_mode &= ~0xFFF;
-	inode->i_mode |= mode & 0xFFF;
+	new_mode = (inode->i_mode & ~0xFFF) | (mode & 0xFFF);
 
-	dbg_printf(ff, "%s: ino=%d new_mode=0%o\n",
-		   __func__, ino, inode->i_mode);
+	dbg_printf(ff, "%s: ino=%d old_mode=0%o new_mode=0%o\n",
+		   __func__, ino, inode->i_mode, new_mode);
+
+	inode->i_mode = new_mode;
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/misc/fuse2fs.c b/misc/fuse2fs.c
index 30fe10ef25da1d..fe6410a42a17ff 100644
--- a/misc/fuse2fs.c
+++ b/misc/fuse2fs.c
@@ -3601,6 +3601,7 @@ static int op_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode, struct fuse_file_info *fi)
 	errcode_t err;
 	ext2_ino_t ino;
 	struct ext2_inode_large inode;
+	mode_t new_mode;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	FUSE2FS_CHECK_CONTEXT(ff);
@@ -3639,11 +3640,12 @@ static int op_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode, struct fuse_file_info *fi)
 			mode &= ~S_ISGID;
 	}
 
-	inode.i_mode &= ~0xFFF;
-	inode.i_mode |= mode & 0xFFF;
+	new_mode = (inode.i_mode & ~0xFFF) | (mode & 0xFFF);
 
-	dbg_printf(ff, "%s: path=%s new_mode=0%o ino=%d\n", __func__,
-		   path, inode.i_mode, ino);
+	dbg_printf(ff, "%s: path=%s old_mode=0%o new_mode=0%o ino=%d\n",
+		   __func__, path, inode.i_mode, new_mode, ino);
+
+	inode.i_mode = new_mode;
 
 	ret = update_ctime(fs, ino, &inode);
 	if (ret)
@@ -3663,12 +3665,12 @@ static int op_chmod(const char *path, mode_t mode, struct fuse_file_info *fi)
 static int op_chown(const char *path, uid_t owner, gid_t group,
 		    struct fuse_file_info *fi)
 {
+	struct ext2_inode_large inode;
 	struct fuse_context *ctxt = fuse_get_context();
 	struct fuse2fs *ff = fuse2fs_get();
 	ext2_filsys fs;
 	errcode_t err;
 	ext2_ino_t ino;
-	struct ext2_inode_large inode;
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	FUSE2FS_CHECK_CONTEXT(ff);