From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/35] ovl: copy up file size as well Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:10:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20180424181057.GA2700@redhat.com> References: <20180412150826.20988-1-mszeredi@redhat.com> <20180412150826.20988-8-mszeredi@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180412150826.20988-8-mszeredi@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 05:07:58PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Copy i_size of the underlying inode to the overlay inode in ovl_copyattr(). > > This is in preparation for stacking I/O operations on overlay files. > > This patch shouldn't have any observable effect. > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi > --- > fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h > index 265cb288417a..10f5f3bf9d96 100644 > --- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h > +++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h > @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ > > #include > #include > +#include > #include "ovl_entry.h" > > enum ovl_path_type { > @@ -355,6 +356,7 @@ static inline void ovl_copyattr(struct inode *from, struct inode *to) > to->i_atime = from->i_atime; > to->i_mtime = from->i_mtime; > to->i_ctime = from->i_ctime; > + i_size_write(to, i_size_read(from)); > } With this change, is following comment in ovl_getattr() stale now. /* * We don't initialize inode->size, which just means that * inode_newsize_ok() will always check against MAX_LFS_FILESIZE and not * check for a swapfile (which this won't be anyway). */ Thanks Vivek