On 2020/05/08 08:38, Max Kellermann <m...@cm4all.com> wrote: > This fails for `O_PATH` file descriptors, because io_file_get() calls > fget(), which rejects `O_PATH` file descriptors. To support `O_PATH`, > fdget_raw() must be used (like path_init() in `fs/namei.c` does). > This rejection causes io_req_set_file() to throw `-EBADF`. This > breaks the operations `openat`, `openat2` and `statx`, where `O_PATH` > file descriptors are commonly used.
Code is the same as in v1, but I investigated the root cause of the problem and updated the patch description. Jens, I believe this should be a separate trivial commit just removing those flags, to allow Greg to backport this to stable easily. Max
