Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 7 authors, 2020-07-06

Re: [PATCH 1/3] readfile: implement readfile syscall

From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2020-07-04 19:14:28
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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:02:47PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
+	/* only accept a small subset of O_ flags that make sense */
+	if ((flags & (O_NOFOLLOW | O_NOATIME)) != flags)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* add some needed flags to be able to open the file properly */
+	flags |= O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE;
Should we also add O_NOCTTY to prevent any problems if this is called on
a tty?
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