This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-add-a-valid_open_flags.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 80f18379a7c350c011d30332658aa15fe49a8fa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:42:24 +0200
Subject: fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
commit 80f18379a7c350c011d30332658aa15fe49a8fa5 upstream.
Add a central define for all valid open flags, and use it in the uniqueness
check.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fcntl.c | 14 ++++----------
include/linux/fcntl.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -740,16 +740,10 @@ static int __init fcntl_init(void)
* Exceptions: O_NONBLOCK is a two bit define on parisc; O_NDELAY
* is defined as O_NONBLOCK on some platforms and not on others.
*/
- BUILD_BUG_ON(21 - 1 /* for O_RDONLY being 0 */ != HWEIGHT32(
- O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR |
- O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY |
- O_TRUNC | O_APPEND | /* O_NONBLOCK | */
- __O_SYNC | O_DSYNC | FASYNC |
- O_DIRECT | O_LARGEFILE | O_DIRECTORY |
- O_NOFOLLOW | O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC |
- __FMODE_EXEC | O_PATH | __O_TMPFILE |
- __FMODE_NONOTIFY
- ));
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(21 - 1 /* for O_RDONLY being 0 */ !=
+ HWEIGHT32(
+ (VALID_OPEN_FLAGS & ~(O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY)) |
+ __FMODE_EXEC | __FMODE_NONOTIFY));
fasync_cache = kmem_cache_create("fasync_cache",
sizeof(struct fasync_struct), 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
--- a/include/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/linux/fcntl.h
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
#include <uapi/linux/fcntl.h>
+/* list of all valid flags for the open/openat flags argument: */
+#define VALID_OPEN_FLAGS \
+ (O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY | O_TRUNC | \
+ O_APPEND | O_NDELAY | O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY | __O_SYNC | O_DSYNC | \
+ FASYNC | O_DIRECT | O_LARGEFILE | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | \
+ O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | O_PATH | __O_TMPFILE)
#ifndef force_o_largefile
#define force_o_largefile() (BITS_PER_LONG != 32)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are
queue-4.4/fs-add-a-valid_open_flags.patch
queue-4.4/fs-completely-ignore-unknown-open-flags.patch