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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
	shuah@kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] readfile: implement readfile syscall
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 20:14:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200704191417.GQ25523@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200704140250.423345-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:02:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> +	/* only accept a small subset of O_ flags that make sense */
> +	if ((flags & (O_NOFOLLOW | O_NOATIME)) != flags)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* add some needed flags to be able to open the file properly */
> +	flags |= O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE;

Should we also add O_NOCTTY to prevent any problems if this is called on
a tty?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-04 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-04 14:02 [PATCH 0/3] readfile(2): a new syscall to make open/read/close faster Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-04 14:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] readfile: implement readfile syscall Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-04 18:35   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-04 19:14   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-07-04 19:41   ` Miklos Szeredi
2020-07-04 20:12     ` Al Viro
2020-07-04 20:16       ` Al Viro
2020-07-04 14:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] arch: wire up the " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-04 18:36   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-04 14:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] selftests: add readfile(2) selftests Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-04 18:38   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-05  6:55     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-05 11:24       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-07-05 11:36         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-05  1:41   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-07-05  7:34     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-05  9:46       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-07-04 14:02 ` [PATCH] readfile.2: new page describing readfile(2) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-05  2:54   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-07-04 19:30 ` [PATCH 0/3] readfile(2): a new syscall to make open/read/close faster Al Viro
2020-07-05 11:47   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-06 17:25 ` Dave Martin

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