linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: O_* bit numbers uniqueness check

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Message-ID: <20100106072029.GA25169@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jan 2010 15:20:29 +0800
From:	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: O_* bit numbers uniqueness check

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:07:01PM +0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le 06/01/2010 07:55, Wu Fengguang a écrit :
> > The O_* bit numbers are defined in 20+ arch/*, and hence can silently
> > overlap. Add a boot time check to ensure the uniqueness as suggested
> > by David Miller.
> > 
> > CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> > CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> > CC: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> > CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> > CC: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  {
> > +	/* please add new bits here to ensure allocation uniqueness */
> > +	BUG_ON(20 != hweight32(
> > +		O_RDONLY	| O_WRONLY	| O_RDWR	|
> > +		O_CREAT		| O_EXCL	| O_NOCTTY	|
> > +		O_TRUNC		| O_APPEND	| O_NONBLOCK	|
> > +		O_SYNC		| FASYNC	| O_DIRECT	|
> > +		O_LARGEFILE	| O_DIRECTORY	| O_NOFOLLOW	|
> > +		O_NOATIME	| O_CLOEXEC	| O_RANDOM	|
> > +		FMODE_EXEC	| FMODE_NONOTIFY));
> > +
> 
> I cannot test it, but given O_RDONLY is 0, are you sure 20 bits are actually set ?

Yes, I tested it. The tricky one is O_SYNC, which actually has two bits..

Thanks,
Fengguang

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