linux-kernel - Re: [ 035/218] vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for fstat()

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Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:27:41 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ 035/218] vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for fstat()

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:14 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> commit 55815f70147dcfa3ead5738fd56d3574e2e3c1c2 upstream.
> 
> We already use them for openat() and friends, but fstat() also wants to
> be able to use O_PATH file descriptors.  This should make it more
> directly comparable to the O_SEARCH of Solaris.
> 
> Note that you could already do the same thing with "fstatat()" and an
> empty path, but just doing "fstat()" directly is simpler and faster, so
> there is no reason not to just allow it directly.
> 
> See also commit 332a2e1244bd, which did the same thing for fchdir, for
> the same reasons.
> 
> Reported-by: ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@...il.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

The upstream version exchanges fget_light() for fget_raw_light().  Since
3.2 (and likewise 3.4) have fget() here, I cherry-picked e994def 'VFS:
make vfs_fstat() use f[get|put]_light()' before this.  Was that a
bad/good/neutral idea?

Ben.

> ---
>  fs/stat.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/fs/stat.c
> +++ b/fs/stat.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_getattr);
>  
>  int vfs_fstat(unsigned int fd, struct kstat *stat)
>  {
> -	struct file *f = fget(fd);
> +	struct file *f = fget_raw(fd);
>  	int error = -EBADF;
>  
>  	if (f) {

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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