linux-kernel - Re: Q. Switch open_exec() and sys_uselib() to do_open

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 02:28:28 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q. Switch open_exec() and sys_uselib() to do_open_filp()

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 09:55:17AM +0900, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp wrote:
> 
> By the commit 6e8341a11eb21826b7192d0bb88cb5b44900a9af
> "Switch open_exec() and sys_uselib() to do_open_filp()",
> FMODE_EXEC flag is passed to struct file. I have no objection nor
> question about that.
> 
> But it is set to file->f_flags instead of f_mode.
> Is this intended behaviour?

It is previously existing behaviour.  Check what path_lookup_open() does
and how had it used to be called.

And no, very little about intents makes any sense, including that part.
Call graph of the entire lookup-and-open-related machinery least of all.
So we have to untangle that mound of mating tapeworms, one by one ;-/
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