From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] fs: Add fchmodat4()
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:01:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230711-verpennen-turnier-717bb9682e19@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZK1QNRidZuGcfOSd@example.org>
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 02:51:01PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:42:19PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 13:25, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > > From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
> > > >
> > > > On the userspace side fchmodat(3) is implemented as a wrapper
> > > > function which implements the POSIX-specified interface. This
> > > > interface differs from the underlying kernel system call, which does not
> > > > have a flags argument. Most implementations require procfs [1][2].
> > > >
> > > > There doesn't appear to be a good userspace workaround for this issue
> > > > but the implementation in the kernel is pretty straight-forward.
> > > >
> > > > The new fchmodat4() syscall allows to pass the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag,
> > > > unlike existing fchmodat.
> > > >
> > > > [1]
> > > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35
> > > > [2]
> > > > https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
> > >
> > > I don't know the history of why we ended up with the different
> > > interface, or whether this was done intentionally in the kernel
> > > or if we want this syscall.
> > >
> > > Assuming this is in fact needed, I double-checked that the
> > > implementation looks correct to me and is portable to all the
> > > architectures, without the need for a compat wrapper.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >
> > The system call itself is useful afaict. But please,
> >
> > s/fchmodat4/fchmodat2/
>
> Sure. I will.
Thanks. Can you also wire this up for every architecture, please?
I don't see that this has been done in this series.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-11 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-17 1:27 Add a new fchmodat4() syscall, v2 Palmer Dabbelt
2019-07-17 1:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Non-functional cleanup of a "__user * filename" Palmer Dabbelt
2019-07-17 1:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Add fchmodat4(), a new syscall Palmer Dabbelt
2019-07-17 1:48 ` Al Viro
2019-07-17 2:12 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-07-17 2:40 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-17 3:02 ` Al Viro
2019-07-17 1:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] arch: Register fchmodat4, usually as syscall 434 Palmer Dabbelt
2019-07-17 1:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] tools: Add fchmodat4 Palmer Dabbelt
2019-07-17 12:39 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-06-09 13:52 ` Add a new fchmodat4() syscall, v2 Florian Weimer
2023-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Add a new fchmodat4() syscall Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] Non-functional cleanup of a "__user * filename" Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 11:32 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] fs: Add fchmodat4() Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 11:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-11 11:52 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-11 12:51 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 14:01 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2023-07-11 15:23 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 12:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-07-11 12:49 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] arch: Register fchmodat4, usually as syscall 451 Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 11:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] tools headers UAPI: Sync files changed by new fchmodat4 syscall Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 11:25 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] selftests: add fchmodat4(2) selftest Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 12:10 ` Florian Weimer
2023-07-11 13:38 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 12:24 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Add a new fchmodat4() syscall Florian Weimer
2023-07-11 15:14 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-25 11:05 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-25 12:05 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-11 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Add a new fchmodat2() syscall Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] Non-functional cleanup of a "__user * filename" Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] fs: Add fchmodat2() Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 17:05 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-25 16:36 ` Aleksa Sarai
2023-07-26 13:45 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-27 10:26 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 17:12 ` Aleksa Sarai
2023-07-27 17:39 ` Aleksa Sarai
2023-07-28 8:43 ` David Laight
2023-07-28 18:42 ` dalias
2023-07-27 9:01 ` David Laight
2023-07-27 16:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-27 17:02 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 17:13 ` dalias
2023-07-27 17:36 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 16:31 ` dalias
2023-07-11 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] arch: Register fchmodat2, usually as syscall 452 Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 16:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-07-25 7:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-07-25 16:43 ` Aleksa Sarai
2023-07-27 10:37 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 17:42 ` Aleksa Sarai
2023-07-11 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] tools headers UAPI: Sync files changed by new fchmodat2 syscall Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 17:19 ` Namhyung Kim
2023-07-11 17:23 ` Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 16:16 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] selftests: Add fchmodat2 selftest Alexey Gladkov
2023-07-11 17:36 ` (subset) [PATCH v4 0/5] Add a new fchmodat2() syscall Christian Brauner
2023-07-12 2:42 ` Rich Felker
2023-07-25 15:58 ` Add fchmodat2() - or add a more general syscall? David Howells
2023-07-25 16:10 ` Florian Weimer
2023-07-25 16:50 ` Aleksa Sarai
2023-07-25 18:39 ` David Howells
2023-07-25 18:44 ` Rich Felker
2023-07-26 13:30 ` Christian Brauner
2023-07-27 3:57 ` Eric Biggers
2023-07-27 10:27 ` Christian Brauner
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