Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> writes: > I was looking at various interesting functions in hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c > and noticed local_open2() which basically tries to open a file in a > filesystem, and if that is successful, it tries to set file credentials > using a configured mechanism, and if that fails, it deletes the file. > > Now I wonder what happens if we tried to open an existing file but was > not able to set credentials for whatever reason -- eg, because the > underlying filesystem does not support xattrs, or whatever. It looks > to me that we will remove the user file! > > If that's the case, it looks like it is a very serious bug...
That callback is used for create. What is used for open is local_open() -aneesh
