On Sun, 2024-06-23 at 03:07 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 2:59 AM Xi Ruoyao <xry...@xry111.site> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2024-06-22 at 15:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > I do think that we should make AT_EMPTY_PATH with a NULL path > > > "JustWork(tm)", because the stupid "look if the pathname is empty" is > > > horrible. > > > > > > But moving that check into getname() is *NOT* the right answer, > > > because by the time you get to getname(), you have already lost. > > > > Oops. I'll try to get around of getname() too... > > > > > So the short-cut in vfs_fstatat() to never get a pathname is > > > disgusting - people should have used 'fstat()' - but it's _important_ > > > disgusting. > > > > The problem is we don't have fstat() for LoongArch, and it'll be > > unusable on all 32-bit arch after 2037. > > > > And Arnd hates the idea adding fstat() for LoongArch because there would > > be one more 32-bit arch broken in 2037. > > > > Or should we just add something like "fstat_2037()"? > > > > In that case fstat is out of the question, but no problem. > > It was suggested to make AT_EMPTY_PATH + NULL pathname do the right > thing and have the syscalls short-circuit as needed. > > for statx it would look like this (except you are going to have > implement do_statx_by_fd): > > diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c > index 16aa1f5ceec4..0afe72b320cc 100644 > --- a/fs/stat.c > +++ b/fs/stat.c > @@ -710,6 +710,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(statx, > int ret; > struct filename *name; > > + if (flags == AT_EMPTY_PATH && filename == NULL) > + return do_statx_by_fd(...); > + > name = getname_flags(filename, getname_statx_lookup_flags(flags)); > ret = do_statx(dfd, name, flags, mask, buffer); > putname(name); > > and so on > > Personally I would prefer if fstatx was added instead, fwiw most > massaging in the area will be the same regardless.
I do agree. But if we do it *now* would it be "breaking the userspace" if some stupid program relies on fstatx() to return some error when the path is NULL? The "stupid programs" may just exist in the wild... I remember recently we have to pretend pidfd is stupid to please some stupid programs... https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240521-girlanden-zehnfach-1bff7eb9218c@brauner/ -- Xi Ruoyao <xry...@xry111.site> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
