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On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 04:38:54PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > [fix for dedupe-vs-exec ETXTBSY] > Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh Hi guys! May I ask if I'm doing something wrong, or barking up the wrong tree? I've sent this patch thrice (May 20, Jul 18, Oct 5), pinged once (Aug 6), yet it hasn't been

[PATCH resend] vfs: allow FILE_EXTENT_SAME (dedupe_file_range) on a file opened ro

Instead of checking the mode of the file descriptor, let's check whether it could have been opened rw. This allows fixing intermittent exec failures when deduping a live system: anyone trying to exec a file currently being deduped gets ETXTBSY. Issuing this ioctl on a ro file was already allowed