The O_* bit numbers are defined in 20+ arch/*, and hence can silently overlap. Add a boot time check to ensure the uniqueness as suggested by David Miller. CC: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fcntl.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- include/asm-generic/fcntl.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux.orig/fs/fcntl.c 2010-01-06 14:41:26.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/fs/fcntl.c 2010-01-06 14:46:57.000000000 +0800 @@ -709,11 +709,21 @@ void kill_fasync(struct fasync_struct ** } EXPORT_SYMBOL(kill_fasync); -static int __init fasync_init(void) +static int __init fcntl_init(void) { + /* please add new bits here to ensure allocation uniqueness */ + BUG_ON(20 != hweight32( + O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR | + O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY | + O_TRUNC | O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK | + O_SYNC | FASYNC | O_DIRECT | + O_LARGEFILE | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | + O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | O_RANDOM | + FMODE_EXEC | FMODE_NONOTIFY)); + fasync_cache = kmem_cache_create("fasync_cache", sizeof(struct fasync_struct), 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL); return 0; } -module_init(fasync_init) +module_init(fcntl_init) --- linux.orig/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h 2010-01-06 14:45:34.000000000 +0800 +++ linux/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h 2010-01-06 14:50:57.000000000 +0800 @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ #include <linux/types.h> /* + * When introducing new O_* bits, please check its uniqueness in fcntl_init(). + * * FMODE_EXEC is 0x20 * FMODE_NONOTIFY is 0x1000000 * These cannot be used by userspace O_* until internal and external open -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html