From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Make creates return EEXIST correctly instead of EPERM
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 22:58:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BC2500DE-9763-4D97-9618-C7548D0807F7@linuxhacker.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160709025230.GR14480@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:52 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:59:50AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>
>> "If path names a symbolic link, mkdir() shall fail and set errno to [EEXIST]."
>>
>> This sounds pretty straightforward to me, no?
>> Since it does not matter that we do not have write permissions here, because
>> the name already exists.
>
> When more than one condition applies, we have every right to return any of
> them. POSIX does *NOT* specify the order of checks. Never had.
Out of curiosity, why does filename_create() delay EROFS then?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-09 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 1:47 [PATCH] nfsd: Make creates return EEXIST correctly instead of EPERM Oleg Drokin
2016-07-08 11:02 ` Jeff Layton
2016-07-08 15:14 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-08 15:53 ` Jeff Layton
2016-07-08 15:59 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-08 16:17 ` Jeff Layton
2016-07-08 16:28 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-09 2:52 ` Al Viro
2016-07-09 2:58 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2016-07-09 3:13 ` Al Viro
2016-07-08 16:04 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-08 16:16 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-08 20:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-08 21:47 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-09 3:10 ` Al Viro
2016-07-09 3:41 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-13 19:00 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-08 20:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-08 21:53 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-21 20:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-21 20:37 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-22 1:57 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 6:35 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-22 10:55 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 15:13 ` Oleg Drokin
2016-07-22 17:48 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/7] nfsd: Make creates return EEXIST instead of EACCES J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/7] nfsd: remove redundant zero-length check from create J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/7] nfsd: remove redundant i_lookup check J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-24 0:22 ` Al Viro
2016-07-24 12:10 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-24 14:23 ` Al Viro
2016-07-24 20:21 ` J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 4/7] nfsd: reorganize nfsd_create J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 5/7] nfsd: remove unnecessary positive-dentry check J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 6/7] nfsd: clean up bad-type check in nfsd_create_locked J. Bruce Fields
2016-07-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 7/7] nfsd: drop unnecessary MAY_EXEC check from create J. Bruce Fields
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