ext2,ext3,ext4: don't inherit APPEND_FL or IMMUTABLE_FL for new inodes
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:54:51 +0000 (11:54 -0400)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:54:51 +0000 (11:54 -0400)
This doesn't make much sense, and it exposes a bug in the kernel where
attempts to create a new file in an append-only directory using
O_CREAT will fail (but still leave a zero-length file).  This was
discovered when xfstests #79 was generalized so it could run on all
file systems.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc:stable@kernel.org


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