linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] fcntl: Add 32bit filesystem mode

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Date:   Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:29:32 +0100
From:   Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>
To:     Eric Blake <eblake@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@...gnu.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fcntl: Add 32bit filesystem mode

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 16:24, Eric Blake <eblake@...hat.com> wrote:
> It will be interesting to find how much code (wrongly) assumes it can
> use a blind assignment of fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, 1) and thereby accidentally
> wipes out other existing flags, when it should have instead been doing a
> read-modify-write to protect flags other than FD_CLOEXEC.

For instance, a quick grep shows 4 instances of this in QEMU :-)

thanks
-- PMM