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authorRich Felker <dalias@libc.org>2020-08-31 11:32:08 -0400
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2024-01-22 15:33:37 +0100
commit73fa7547c70b32cc69685f79be31135797734eb6 (patch)
tree61eca04ae3dafb7132f40baa1e73b27dd9f3f949 /include/linux/fs.h
parent9e3f1c59367515e7e40675fe83645a131c05039d (diff)
downloadlinux-73fa7547c70b32cc69685f79be31135797734eb6.tar.gz
vfs: add RWF_NOAPPEND flag for pwritev2
The pwrite function, originally defined by POSIX (thus the "p"), is defined to ignore O_APPEND and write at the offset passed as its argument. However, historically Linux honored O_APPEND if set and ignored the offset. This cannot be changed due to stability policy, but is documented in the man page as a bug. Now that there's a pwritev2 syscall providing a superset of the pwrite functionality that has a flags argument, the conforming behavior can be offered to userspace via a new flag. Since pwritev2 checks flag validity (in kiocb_set_rw_flags) and reports unknown ones with EOPNOTSUPP, callers will not get wrong behavior on old kernels that don't support the new flag; the error is reported and the caller can decide how to handle it. Signed-off-by: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200831153207.GO3265@brightrain.aerifal.cx Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ed5966a704951..4f7cfda29143e 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3335,6 +3335,8 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(struct kiocb *ki, rwf_t flags)
return 0;
if (unlikely(flags & ~RWF_SUPPORTED))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ if (unlikely((flags & RWF_APPEND) && (flags & RWF_NOAPPEND)))
+ return -EINVAL;
if (flags & RWF_NOWAIT) {
if (!(ki->ki_filp->f_mode & FMODE_NOWAIT))
@@ -3345,6 +3347,12 @@ static inline int kiocb_set_rw_flags(struct kiocb *ki, rwf_t flags)
if (flags & RWF_SYNC)
kiocb_flags |= IOCB_DSYNC;
+ if ((flags & RWF_NOAPPEND) && (ki->ki_flags & IOCB_APPEND)) {
+ if (IS_APPEND(file_inode(ki->ki_filp)))
+ return -EPERM;
+ ki->ki_flags &= ~IOCB_APPEND;
+ }
+
ki->ki_flags |= kiocb_flags;
return 0;
}