[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: send SIGXFSZ if new filesize exceeds limit

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:29:19AM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
> Yes that I considered using inode_newsize_ok().
> I'am not sure if checking i_size is safe(lack of knowledge).

	It should be, given that i_mutex is held.  Filesystems that
don't handle their own setattr get to inode_newsize_ok() via
vmtruncate.

Joel


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