Follow the comment by Eric: Until the FMODE_ and O_ bits do not overload I think we need to check FMODE_EXEC and FMODE_NONOTIFY (if you have that one) inside fcntl_init() as well. I guess I'll send a patch to someone ?Al? to add FMODE_EXEC to the list.... CC: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fcntl.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-mm.orig/fs/fcntl.c 2010-03-12 21:27:12.000000000 +0800 +++ linux-mm/fs/fcntl.c 2010-03-12 21:38:51.000000000 +0800 @@ -748,7 +748,8 @@ static int __init fcntl_init(void) O_TRUNC | O_APPEND | O_NONBLOCK | __O_SYNC | O_DSYNC | FASYNC | O_DIRECT | O_LARGEFILE | O_DIRECTORY | - O_NOFOLLOW | O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC + O_NOFOLLOW | O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | + FMODE_EXEC )); fasync_cache = kmem_cache_create("fasync_cache", -- 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