Currently we just stash anything we got into file->f_flags, and the report it in fcntl(F_GETFD). This patch just clears out all unknown flags so that we don't pass them to the fs or report them. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/open.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 949cef29c3bb..7bba2b952f1e 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -900,6 +900,12 @@ static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o int lookup_flags = 0; int acc_mode = ACC_MODE(flags); + /* + * Clear out all open flags we don't know about so that we don't report + * them in fcntl(F_GETFD) or similar interfaces. + */ + flags &= VALID_OPEN_FLAGS; + if (flags & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) op->mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG; else -- 2.11.0