On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 01:43:31AM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > On 2022-01-12, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:02:17PM +0300, Andrey Zhadchenko wrote: > > > If you have an opened O_PATH file, currently there is no way to re-open > > > it with other flags with openat/openat2. As a workaround it is possible > > > to open it via /proc/self/fd/<X>, however > > > 1) You need to ensure that /proc exists > > > 2) You cannot use O_NOFOLLOW flag > > > > > > Both problems may look insignificant, but they are sensitive for CRIU. > > > > Not just CRIU. It's also an issue for systemd, LXD, and other users. > > (One old example is where we do need to sometimes stash an O_PATH fd to > > a /dev/pts/ptmx device and to actually perform an open on the device we > > reopen via /proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>.) > > > > > First of all, procfs may not be mounted in the namespace where we are > > > restoring the process. Secondly, if someone opens a file with O_NOFOLLOW > > > flag, it is exposed in /proc/pid/fdinfo/<X>. So CRIU must also open the > > > file with this flag during restore. > > > > > > This patch adds new constant RESOLVE_EMPTY_PATH for resolve field of > > > struct open_how and changes getname() call to getname_flags() to avoid > > > ENOENT for empty filenames. > > > > From my perspective this makes sense and is something that would be > > very useful instead of having to hack around this via procfs. > > > > However, e should consider adding RESOLVE_EMPTY_PATH since we already > > have AT_EMPTY_PATH. If we think this is workable we should try and reuse > > AT_EMPTY_PATH that keeps the api consistent with linkat(), readlinkat(), > > execveat(), statx(), open_tree(), mount_setattr() etc. > > > > If AT_EMPTY_PATH doesn't conflict with another O_* flag one could make > > openat() support it too? > > I would much prefer O_EMPTYPATH, in fact I think this is what I called > it in my first draft ages ago. RESOLVE_ is meant to be related to > resolution restrictions, not changing the opening mode. That seems okay to me too. The advantage of AT_EMPTY_PATH is that we don't double down on the naming confusion, imho.
