linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] floppy: fix open(O

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Message-ID: <20160725180903.GA7065@djo.tudelft.nl>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 20:09:03 +0200
From:	Wim Osterholt <wim@....tudelft.nl>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-block@...r.kernel.org, Wim Osterholt <wim@....tudelft.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] floppy: fix open(O_ACCMODE) for ioctl-only open

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> 
> Commit 09954bad4 ("floppy: refactor open() flags handling"), as a 
> side-effect, causes open(/dev/fdX, O_ACCMODE) to fail. It turns out that 
> this is being used setfdprm userspace for ioctl-only open().
> 
> Reintroduce back the original behavior wrt !(FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE) 
> modes, while still keeping the original O_NDELAY bug fixed.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.5+
> Reported-by: Wim Osterholt <wim@....tudelft.nl>
> Tested-by: Wim Osterholt <wim@....tudelft.nl>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> ---
> 
> Jens, this should preferably go into 4.7-rcX and to -stable as well.
> 

How come this patch is still not in the recent release of 4.7 ?



Regards, Wim.