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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-02-08 09:43:08 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-02-08 09:43:08 +1100
commit8f75015f33c3005e0bbf83ffc0d5e0b4262cc03d (patch)
treea3c34ad86ccdc904bb43af6cd1cb163231c29276 /fs/fcntl.c
parent076d022c566fddde41fd4a858dd24bacad8304d7 (diff)
parente060e084e7d9e1c62d02cb6b8d3fe07db5317eaa (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fcntl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fcntl.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 5f96786d1c7..dc4a7007f4e 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -208,8 +208,11 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
struct inode * inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
int error = 0;
- /* O_APPEND cannot be cleared if the file is marked as append-only */
- if (!(arg & O_APPEND) && IS_APPEND(inode))
+ /*
+ * O_APPEND cannot be cleared if the file is marked as append-only
+ * and the file is open for write.
+ */
+ if (((arg ^ filp->f_flags) & O_APPEND) && IS_APPEND(inode))
return -EPERM;
/* O_NOATIME can only be set by the owner or superuser */