On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 06:28:53PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

On Jul 27 2023, David Laight wrote:

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From: Aleksa Sarai

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Sent: 25 July 2023 17:36

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We almost certainly want to support AT_EMPTY_PATH at the same time.
Otherwise userspace will still need to go through /proc when trying to
chmod a file handle they have.

That can't be allowed.

IIUC, fchmodat2(fd, "", m, AT_EMPTY_PATH) is equivalent to fchmod(fd,
m).  With that, new architectures only need to implement the fchmodat2
syscall to cover all chmod variants.

There's a difference though as fchmod() doesn't work with O_PATH file
descriptors while AT_EMPTY_PATH does. Similar to how fchown() doesn't
work with O_PATH file descriptors.

However, we do allow AT_EMPTY_PATH with fchownat() so there's no reason
to not allow it for fchmodat2().

But it's a bit of a shame that O_PATH looks less and less like O_PATH.
It came from can-do-barely-anything to can-do-quite-a-lot-of-things over
the years.

In any case, AT_EMPTY_PATH for fchmodat2() can be an additional patch on
top.