linux-kernel - For the condition "file->f_mode", when it failed, it should return EACCES rather than EBADF.

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Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2013 10:07:05 +0800
From:	majianpeng <majianpeng@...il.com>
To:	"Jens Axboe" <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: For the condition "file->f_mode", when it failed, it should return EACCES rather than EBADF.

Hi all,
	When I wanted to do discard operations,but i set the  openflag was O_RDONLY,it returned a EBADF rather than EACCES or EPERM.
I searched the code and found:
>case BLKDISCARD:
>case BLKSECDISCARD: {
>		uint64_t range[2];

>		if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
>			return -EBADF;
Initial i thought there was error.But i searched all code of kernel and found some places like this.

The description of EBADF is "Bad file numbe". There are some places where returned EBADF like,
>if (!f.file)
>		return -EBADF;

So i think for checking file->f_mode when failed, it should return EACCESS.


Jianpeng Ma
Thanks!