linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] O_REGULAR flag support for open

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Message-ID: <20260125141518.59493-1-dorjoychy111@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:14:04 +0600
From: Dorjoy Chowdhury <dorjoychy111@...il.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] O_REGULAR flag support for open

Hi,

I came upon this "Ability to only open regular files" uapi feature suggestion
from https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#ability-to-only-open-regular-files
and thought it would be something I could do as a first patch and get to
know the kernel code a bit better.

I am not quite sure if the semantics that I baked into the code for this
O_REGULAR flag's behavior when combined with other flags like O_CREAT look
good and if there are other places that need the checks. I can fixup my
patch according to suggestions for improvement. I did some happy path testing
and the O_REGULAR flag seems to work as intended.

Thanks.

Regards,
Dorjoy

Dorjoy Chowdhury (2):
  open: new O_REGULAR flag support
  kselftest/openat2: test for O_REGULAR flag

 fs/fcntl.c                                    |  2 +-
 fs/namei.c                                    |  6 +++
 fs/open.c                                     |  4 +-
 include/linux/fcntl.h                         |  2 +-
 include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h         |  1 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h              |  4 ++
 .../testing/selftests/openat2/openat2_test.c  | 37 ++++++++++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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