Patch "fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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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



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