linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: return EOPNOTSUPP from file_setattr/file

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Message-Id: <5702a4d0-37f9-4131-bb4b-4a192088ec28@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:23:28 +0200
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Andrey Albershteyn" <aalbersh@...hat.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>, "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
 "Christian Brauner" <brauner@...nel.org>,
 "Andrey Albershteyn" <aalbersh@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs: return EOPNOTSUPP from file_setattr/file_getattr syscalls

On Wed, Oct 8, 2025, at 14:44, Andrey Albershteyn wrote:
> These syscalls call to vfs_fileattr_get/set functions which return
> ENOIOCTLCMD if filesystem doesn't support setting file attribute on an
> inode. For syscalls EOPNOTSUPP would be more appropriate return error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>