This patch is not a bug fix. I doubt that anyone wants this behavior,
but I am sharing the patch just in case. It causes PVFS to _not_ report
an error if a user attempts to set unsupported sticky or setuid bits on
a file or directory. It is mainly helpful if you have a 3rd party
application that insists on setting those bits and you don't want PVFS
to complain about it.
-Phil
Index: pvfs2_src/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c
===================================================================
--- pvfs2_src/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c (revision 2658)
+++ pvfs2_src/src/kernel/linux-2.6/pvfs2-utils.c (revision 2659)
@@ -383,17 +383,25 @@
}
else
{
+/* just return success if user requests sticky bit */
+ tmp_mode -= S_ISVTX;
+#if 0
gossip_debug(GOSSIP_UTILS_DEBUG, "User attempted to set sticky bit"
"on non-root directory; returning EINVAL.\n");
return(-EINVAL);
+#endif
}
}
if (tmp_mode & (S_ISUID))
{
+/* just return success if user requests setuid bit */
+ tmp_mode -= S_ISUID;
+#if 0
gossip_debug(GOSSIP_UTILS_DEBUG, "Attempting to set setuid bit "
"(not supported); returning EINVAL.\n");
return(-EINVAL);
+#endif
}
convert_attribute_mode_to_pvfs_sys_attr(
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