When preparing for the removal of GNULIB commit 18dca21a32e9 removed the unneeded O_DIRECTORY, but unfortunately started opening the directory for writing which fails every time for a directory. There is also no need for that as flock() works on O_RDONLY file descriptor as well, even for LOCK_EX.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1852741 Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mklet...@redhat.com> --- src/util/virresctrl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virresctrl.c b/src/util/virresctrl.c index 33044da3a1ef..f6da13645ae3 100644 --- a/src/util/virresctrl.c +++ b/src/util/virresctrl.c @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ VIR_ONCE_GLOBAL_INIT(virResctrl); static int virResctrlLockWrite(void) { - int fd = open(SYSFS_RESCTRL_PATH, O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC); + int fd = open(SYSFS_RESCTRL_PATH, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd < 0) { virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("Cannot open resctrl")); -- 2.27.0