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yaml
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r: 139482
b: refs/heads/master
c: 2dc6b0d
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 8fa43a81b97853fc69417bb6054182e78f95cbeb
+refs/heads/master: 2dc6b0d48ca0599837df21b14bb8393d0804af57

trunk/fs/ext4/ext4.h

@@ -246,6 +246,23 @@ struct flex_groups {
 			   EXT4_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\
 			   EXT4_NOTAIL_FL | EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL)
 
+/* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */
+#define EXT4_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT4_TOPDIR_FL))
+
+/* Flags that are appropriate for non-directories/regular files. */
+#define EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK (EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL)
+
+/* Mask out flags that are inappropriate for the given type of inode. */
+static inline __u32 ext4_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags)
+{
+	if (S_ISDIR(mode))
+		return flags;
+	else if (S_ISREG(mode))
+		return flags & EXT4_REG_FLMASK;
+	else
+		return flags & EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK;
+}
+
 /*
  * Inode dynamic state flags
  */

trunk/fs/ext4/ialloc.c

@@ -885,16 +885,12 @@ struct inode *ext4_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir, int mode)
 	ei->i_disksize = 0;
 
 	/*
-	 * Don't inherit extent flag from directory. We set extent flag on
-	 * newly created directory and file only if -o extent mount option is
-	 * specified
+	 * Don't inherit extent flag from directory, amongst others. We set
+	 * extent flag on newly created directory and file only if -o extent
+	 * mount option is specified
 	 */
-	ei->i_flags = EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_FL_INHERITED;
-	if (S_ISLNK(mode))
-		ei->i_flags &= ~(EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL|EXT4_APPEND_FL);
-	/* dirsync only applies to directories */
-	if (!S_ISDIR(mode))
-		ei->i_flags &= ~EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL;
+	ei->i_flags =
+		ext4_mask_flags(mode, EXT4_I(dir)->i_flags & EXT4_FL_INHERITED);
 	ei->i_file_acl = 0;
 	ei->i_dtime = 0;
 	ei->i_block_group = group;

trunk/fs/ext4/ioctl.c

@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ long ext4_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		if (err)
 			return err;
 
-		if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-			flags &= ~EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL;
+		flags = ext4_mask_flags(inode->i_mode, flags);
 
 		err = -EPERM;
 		mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);