On 2022/03/12 7:15, Paul Moore wrote: > The silence on this has been deafening :/ No thoughts on fixing, or > not fixing OPEN_FMODE(), Al? On 2022/03/01 19:15, Mickaël Salaün wrote: > > On 01/03/2022 10:22, Christian Brauner wrote: >> That specific part seems a bit risky at first glance. Given that the >> patch referenced is from 2009 this means we've been allowing O_WRONLY | >> O_RDWR to succeed for almost 13 years now. > > Yeah, it's an old bug, but we should keep in mind that a file descriptor > created with such flags cannot be used to read nor write. However, > unfortunately, it can be used for things like ioctl, fstat, chdir… I > don't know if there is any user of this trick. I got a reply from Al at https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20090212032821.GD28946@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx that sys_open(path, 3) is for ioctls only. And I'm using this trick when opening something for ioctls only.
