linux-kernel - Re: [patch] fix sys_mknodat breakage from r/o bind mounts

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Date:	Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:13:45 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fix sys_mknodat breakage from r/o bind mounts

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 00:58 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> 
> mknod("foo", 0644) returns EINVAL, even though it should succeed.

Just to clarify, this is for when we use mknod to create normal,
non-device files, right?  Your fix looks very correct to me.

I'm curious, do you have a normal program that uses mknod(2) this way?
I'd like to add it to my test scripts.

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>

-- Dave

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