On 10/12/20 5:06 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
It was brought to my attention that this bug from 2018 was
still unresolved: 32 bit emulators like QEMU were given
64 bit hashes when running 32 bit emulation on 64 bit systems.
This adds a flag to the fcntl() F_GETFD and F_SETFD operations
to set the underlying filesystem into 32bit mode even if the
file handle was opened using 64bit mode without the compat
syscalls.
Programs that need the 32 bit file system behavior need to
issue a fcntl() system call such as in this example:
#define FD_32BIT_MODE 2
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
DIR* dir;
int err;
int fd;
dir = opendir("/boot");
fd = dirfd(dir);
err = fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_32BIT_MODE);
This is a blind set, and wipes out FD_CLOEXEC. Better would be to do a
proper demonstration of the read-modify-write with F_GETFD that portable
programs will have to use in practice.
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
