ocfs2: delay inode update transactions after verifying the input flags

There is no need to start the inode update transactions before/while
verifying the input flags.  As a refinement, this patch delay the
transactions utill the pre-check up is ok.

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c b/fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c
index 752f0b26221d9c5f03bd976d11b3998c58132c0f..6cab301a568d6a3f15a07de12fa7a43b77759ef2 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c
@@ -101,13 +101,6 @@ static int ocfs2_set_inode_attr(struct inode *inode, unsigned flags,
        if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
                flags &= ~OCFS2_DIRSYNC_FL;
 
-       handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
-       if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
-               status = PTR_ERR(handle);
-               mlog_errno(status);
-               goto bail_unlock;
-       }
-
        oldflags = ocfs2_inode->ip_attr;
        flags = flags & mask;
        flags |= oldflags & ~mask;
@@ -120,7 +113,14 @@ static int ocfs2_set_inode_attr(struct inode *inode, unsigned flags,
        if ((oldflags & OCFS2_IMMUTABLE_FL) || ((flags ^ oldflags) &
                (OCFS2_APPEND_FL | OCFS2_IMMUTABLE_FL))) {
                if (!capable(CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE))
-                       goto bail_commit;
+                       goto bail_unlock;
+       }
+
+       handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
+       if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+               status = PTR_ERR(handle);
+               mlog_errno(status);
+               goto bail_unlock;
        }
 
        ocfs2_inode->ip_attr = flags;
@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ static int ocfs2_set_inode_attr(struct inode *inode, unsigned flags,
        if (status < 0)
                mlog_errno(status);
 
-bail_commit:
        ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle);
+
 bail_unlock:
        ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, 1);
 bail: