linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Add new open(2) flag

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Message-ID: <20230102143538.GA8886@hamza-HP-ZBook-15-G3>
Date:   Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:35:38 +0500
From:   Ameer Hamza <ahamza@...ystems.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add new open(2) flag - O_EMPTY_PATH

On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 02:01:38PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Ameer Hamza
> > Sent: 31 December 2022 23:56
> > 
> > This patch adds a new flag O_EMPTY_PATH that allows openat and open
> > system calls to open a file referenced by fd if the path is empty,
> > and it is very similar to the FreeBSD O_EMPTY_PATH flag. This can be
> > beneficial in some cases since it would avoid having to grant /proc
> > access to things like samba containers for reopening files to change
> > flags in a race-free way.
> > 
> 
> But what does it do?
> (Apart from add code to a common kernel code path.)
> 
> 	David
It can convert an O_PATH descriptor to one suitable for r/w work.
If we already have a file descriptor: {opath_fd = open(&lt;path&gt;, O_PATH);}, we can call {openat(opath_fd, "", O_EMPTY_PATH | O_RDWR)} instead of going through procfs {open(/proc/self/fd/&lt;opath_fd&gt;, O_RDWR)}.
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