On 06/07/2019 16.57, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > --- a/fs/open.c > +++ b/fs/open.c > @@ -928,24 +928,32 @@ struct file *open_with_fake_path(const struct path *path, int flags, > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(open_with_fake_path); > > -static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *op) > +static inline int build_open_flags(struct open_how how, struct open_flags *op) > { How does passing such a huge struct by value affect code generation? Does gcc actually inline the function (and does it even inline the old one given that it's already non-trivial and has more than one caller). > int lookup_flags = 0; > - int acc_mode = ACC_MODE(flags); > + int opath_mask = 0; > + int acc_mode = ACC_MODE(how.flags); > + > + if (how.resolve & ~VALID_RESOLVE_FLAGS) > + return -EINVAL; > + if (!(how.flags & (O_PATH | O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) && how.mode != 0) > + return -EINVAL; > + if (memchr_inv(how.reserved, 0, sizeof(how.reserved))) > + return -EINVAL; How about passing how by const reference, and copy the few fields you need to local variables. That would at least simplify this patch by eliminating a lot of the > - flags &= VALID_OPEN_FLAGS; > + how.flags &= VALID_OPEN_FLAGS; > > - if (flags & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) > - op->mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG; > + if (how.flags & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) > + op->mode = (how.mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG; churn. > > diff --git a/include/linux/fcntl.h b/include/linux/fcntl.h > index 2868ae6c8fc1..e59917292213 100644 > --- a/include/linux/fcntl.h > +++ b/include/linux/fcntl.h > @@ -4,13 +4,26 @@ > > #include <uapi/linux/fcntl.h> > > -/* list of all valid flags for the open/openat flags argument: */ > +/* Should open_how.mode be set for older syscalls wrappers? */ > +#define OPENHOW_MODE(flags, mode) \ > + (((flags) | (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) ? (mode) : 0) > + Typo: (((flags) & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) ? (mode) : 0) > +/** > + * 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). > + * @mode: O_CREAT file mode (ignored otherwise). should probably say "O_CREAT/O_TMPFILE file mode". > + * @upgrade_mask: restrict how the O_PATH may be re-opened (ignored otherwise). > + * @resolve: RESOLVE_* flags (-EINVAL on unknown flags). > + * @reserved: reserved for future extensions, must be zeroed. > + */ > +struct open_how { > + __u32 flags; > + union { > + __u16 mode; > + __u16 upgrade_mask; > + }; > + __u16 resolve; So mode and upgrade_mask are naturally u16 aka mode_t. And yes, they probably never need to be used together, so the union works. That then makes the next member 2-byte aligned, so using a u16 for the resolve flags brings us to an 8-byte boundary, and 11 unused flag bits should be enough for a while. But it seems a bit artificial to cram all this together and then add 56 bytes of reserved space. Rasmus