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    xfs: correct the narrative around misaligned rtinherit/extszinherit dirs · 83193e5e
    Darrick J. Wong authored
    While auditing the realtime growfs code, I realized that the GROWFSRT
    ioctl (and by extension xfs_growfs) has always allowed sysadmins to
    change the realtime extent size when adding a realtime section to the
    filesystem.  Since we also have always allowed sysadmins to set
    RTINHERIT and EXTSZINHERIT on directories even if there is no realtime
    device, this invalidates the premise laid out in the comments added in
    commit 603f000b.
    
    In other words, this is not a case of inadequate metadata validation.
    This is a case of nearly forgotten (and apparently untested) but
    supported functionality.  Update the comments to reflect what we've
    learned, and remove the log message about correcting the misalignment.
    
    Fixes: 603f000b ("xfs: validate extsz hints against rt extent size when rtinherit is set")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarCarlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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