linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] pipe: fix race with fcntl

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Date:	Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:34:58 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pipe: fix race with fcntl

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 09:08:21PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> Fix other long standing issues caused by fcntl(,F_SETFL,):
> - User can disable O_DIRECT for pipe[1] (paketized IO), but can not enable it again.
> - Currently we do not set O_APPEND on pipe[1] (IMHO it is wrong, but let it be)
>   so it is reasonable to completely prohibit change O_APPEND flag on both
>   end's of pipe. Add ->check_flags method in order to diallow O_APPEND toggling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
> ---

TBH, all those ->direct_IO != NULL checks seem to be a wrong approach.
If nothing else, it forces several filesystem into inventing a fake
->direct_IO just to fool those tests.  How about we
	* introduce FMODE_MAY_DIRECT and allow ->open() explicitly set it
	* make open_check_o_direct() and fcntl.c check that instead of poking
in ->f_mapping->a_ops, etc.
	* provide a variant of generic_file_open() that would set that
bit and use it on the filesystems that handle dio
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