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From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 08/10] open: openat2(2) syscall
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:59:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190719015933.GA18022@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190706145737.5299-9-cyphar@cyphar.com>

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On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
[...]
> +/**
> + * Arguments for how openat2(2) should open the target path. If @extra is zero,
> + * then openat2(2) is identical to openat(2).
> + *
> + * @flags: O_* flags (unknown flags ignored).

What was the rationale for implementing this semantics?
Ignoring unknown flags makes potential extension of this new interface
problematic.  This has bitten us many times already, so ...

> + * @mode: O_CREAT file mode (ignored otherwise).
> + * @upgrade_mask: restrict how the O_PATH may be re-opened (ignored otherwise).
> + * @resolve: RESOLVE_* flags (-EINVAL on unknown flags).

... could you consider implementing this (-EINVAL on unknown flags) semantics
for @flags as well, please?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-19  1:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-06 14:57 [PATCH v9 00/10] namei: openat2(2) path resolution restrictions Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 01/10] namei: obey trailing magic-link DAC permissions Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12  4:14   ` Al Viro
2019-07-12  6:36     ` Al Viro
2019-07-12 12:20     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12 13:10       ` Al Viro
2019-07-14  7:11         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 02/10] procfs: switch magic-link modes to be more sane Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 03/10] open: O_EMPTYPATH: procfs-less file descriptor re-opening Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 04/10] namei: split out nd->dfd handling to dirfd_path_init Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12  4:20   ` Al Viro
2019-07-12 12:07     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12 12:12       ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 05/10] namei: O_BENEATH-style path resolution flags Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12  4:33   ` Al Viro
2019-07-12 10:57     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12 12:39       ` Al Viro
2019-07-12 12:55         ` Al Viro
2019-07-12 13:25           ` Al Viro
2019-07-12 15:00             ` Al Viro
2019-07-13  2:41               ` Al Viro
2019-07-14  3:58                 ` Al Viro
2019-07-16  8:03                   ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-14  7:00                 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-14 14:36                   ` Al Viro
2019-07-18  3:17                     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-14 10:31             ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 06/10] namei: LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: chroot-like path resolution Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 07/10] namei: aggressively check for nd->root escape on ".." resolution Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 08/10] open: openat2(2) syscall Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-18 14:48   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-07-18 15:21     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-18 15:10   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-18 16:12     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-18 21:29       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-19  2:12         ` Dmitry V. Levin
2019-07-19 10:29           ` Christian Brauner
2019-07-19  1:59   ` Dmitry V. Levin [this message]
2019-07-19  2:19     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 09/10] kselftest: save-and-restore errno to allow for %m formatting Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-06 14:57 ` [PATCH v9 10/10] selftests: add openat2(2) selftests Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-08  1:15   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-08  5:47     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-07-12 15:11 ` [PATCH v9 00/10] namei: openat2(2) path resolution restrictions Al Viro
2019-07-12 15:32   ` Aleksa Sarai

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