Re: [RFC] vfs: skip extra attributes check on removal for symlinks

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 12:38:55AM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 05:17:41PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:

quoted

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 12:03:28AM +0000, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

quoted

Groovy, thanks, let's not forget the xfs_repair respective fix :) let me know
if you have any feedback on that.

TBH I've lost any proposed xfs_repair patches to the mists of time
because some patch volcano keeps erupting on the lists. :P

Uh... I think it's fine for xfs_{repair,scrub} to clear the immutable
and append flags on any special inodes it finds, particularly since
neither flag has any real meaning for block/char/fifo/socket/symlinks
anyway.

Sure, my point during review of that series for xfs_repair in particular
though was that for symlinks the justification is different (half of the
commit log in this new patch), as such I'd prefer to deal with them in a
separate follow up patch.

Ah, found it again finally[1].  ISTR the discussion petered out after
Dave asked if you had a map of inode mode
(file/dir/bdev/cdev/fifo/socket/symlink) to allowable flags.  That would
be a good general way to detect and clear stray flags.

--D

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-xfs&m=150948985429374&w=4

  Luis
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