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[2/2] btrfs: defrag: return EPERM not EINVAL when only permissions fail

Message ID 20180521144515.16501-2-kilobyte@angband.pl (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Adam Borowski May 21, 2018, 2:45 p.m. UTC
We give EINVAL when the request is invalid; here it's ok but merely the
user has insufficient privileges.  Thus, this return value reflects the
error better -- as discussed in the identical case for dedupe.

According to codesearch.debian.net, no userspace program distinguishes
these values beyond strerror().

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
---
 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index b75db9d72106..ae6a110987a7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2563,7 +2563,7 @@  static int btrfs_ioctl_defrag(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
 	case S_IFREG:
 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) &&
 		    inode_permission(inode, MAY_WRITE)) {
-			ret = -EINVAL;
+			ret = -EPERM;
 			goto out;
 		}