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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-13 03:51:11 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2011-03-15 02:21:45 -0400 |
| commit | 1abf0c718f15a56a0a435588d1b104c7a37dc9bd (patch) | |
| tree | 91a6fae3218686b9a945569a7fa7fad120f64e94 /include | |
| parent | f2fa2ffc2046fdc35f96366d1ec8675f4d578522 (diff) | |
New kind of open files - "location only".
New flag for open(2) - O_PATH. Semantics:
* pathname is resolved, but the file itself is _NOT_ opened
as far as filesystem is concerned.
* almost all operations on the resulting descriptors shall
fail with -EBADF. Exceptions are:
1) operations on descriptors themselves (i.e.
close(), dup(), dup2(), dup3(), fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD),
fcntl(fd, F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC, ...), fcntl(fd, F_GETFD),
fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, ...))
2) fcntl(fd, F_GETFL), for a common non-destructive way to
check if descriptor is open
3) "dfd" arguments of ...at(2) syscalls, i.e. the starting
points of pathname resolution
* closing such descriptor does *NOT* affect dnotify or
posix locks.
* permissions are checked as usual along the way to file;
no permission checks are applied to the file itself. Of course,
giving such thing to syscall will result in permission checks (at
the moment it means checking that starting point of ....at() is
a directory and caller has exec permissions on it).
fget() and fget_light() return NULL on such descriptors; use of
fget_raw() and fget_raw_light() is needed to get them. That protects
existing code from dealing with those things.
There are two things still missing (they come in the next commits):
one is handling of symlinks (right now we refuse to open them that
way; see the next commit for semantics related to those) and another
is descriptor passing via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/fcntl.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/file.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 3 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h index 0fc16e3f0bfc..84793c7025e2 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h @@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ #define O_SYNC (__O_SYNC|O_DSYNC) #endif +#ifndef O_PATH +#define O_PATH 010000000 +#endif + #ifndef O_NDELAY #define O_NDELAY O_NONBLOCK #endif diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h index e85baebf6279..21a79958541c 100644 --- a/include/linux/file.h +++ b/include/linux/file.h @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ static inline void fput_light(struct file *file, int fput_needed) extern struct file *fget(unsigned int fd); extern struct file *fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed); +extern struct file *fget_raw(unsigned int fd); +extern struct file *fget_raw_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed); extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag); extern void put_filp(struct file *); extern int alloc_fd(unsigned start, unsigned flags); diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index f2143e0942c2..13df14e2c42e 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ struct inodes_stat_t { /* File is huge (eg. /dev/kmem): treat loff_t as unsigned */ #define FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET ((__force fmode_t)0x2000) +/* File is opened with O_PATH; almost nothing can be done with it */ +#define FMODE_PATH ((__force fmode_t)0x4000) + /* File was opened by fanotify and shouldn't generate fanotify events */ #define FMODE_NONOTIFY ((__force fmode_t)0x1000000) |