linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Forbid user to change file flags on quota files

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Date:	Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:47:01 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	LIOU Payphone <lioupayphone@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Forbid user to change file flags on quota files

Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> writes:

> On Fri 02-11-07 18:32:08, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 1 2007 16:52, Jan Kara wrote:
>> 
>> >--- linux-2.6.24-rc1/fs/ext2/ioctl.c	2007-10-24 20:43:56.000000000 +0200
>> >+++ linux-2.6.24-rc1-1-forbid_setflags/fs/ext2/ioctl.c	2007-11-01 16:01:26.000000000 +0100
>> >@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ int ext2_ioctl (struct inode * inode, st
>> > 			flags &= ~EXT2_DIRSYNC_FL;
>> > 
>> > 		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>> >+		/* Is it quota file? Don't allow user mess with it */
>> 
>> "Do not allow user to mess with it".
>   I think both "allow user mess" and "allow user to mess" are possible,

I think it's either "to allow doing sth" or "to allow to do sth", but
"to allow do sth" looks definitely wrong to me.

Andreas.

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