vfs: deny fallocate() on directory
There was an obscure use case of fallocate of directory inode in the vfs helper with the comment: "Let individual file system decide if it supports preallocation for directories or not." But there is no in-tree file system that implements fallocate for directory operations. Deny an attempt to fallocate a directory with EISDIR error. This change is needed prior to converting sb_start_write() to file_start_write(), so freeze protection is correctly handled for cases of fallocate file and blockdev. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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