On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 09:19:11AM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote: > > On 08/09/2020 20:50, Al Viro wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 09:59:53AM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This height patch series rework the previous O_MAYEXEC series by not > >> adding a new flag to openat2(2) but to faccessat2(2) instead. As > >> suggested, this enables to perform the access check on a file descriptor > >> instead of on a file path (while opening it). This may require two > >> checks (one on open and then with faccessat2) but it is a more generic > >> approach [8]. > > > > Again, why is that folded into lookup/open/whatnot, rather than being > > an operation applied to a file (e.g. O_PATH one)? > > I don't understand your question. AT_INTERPRETED can and should be used > with AT_EMPTY_PATH. The two checks I wrote about was for IMA. Al is saying you should add a new syscall, not try to fold it into some existing syscall. I agree with him. Add a new syscall, just like you were told to do it last time.
