Commit 5daeb41
fchmodat2: add support for AT_EMPTY_PATH
This allows userspace to avoid going through /proc/self/fd when dealing
with all types of file descriptors for chmod(), and makes fchmodat2() a
proper superset of all other chmod syscalls.
The primary difference between fchmodat2(AT_EMPTY_PATH) and fchmod() is
that fchmod() doesn't operate on O_PATH file descriptors by design. To
quote open(2):
> O_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39)
> [...]
> The file itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g.,
> read(2), write(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fgetxattr(2), ioctl(2),
> mmap(2)) fail with the error EBADF.
However, procfs has allowed userspace to do this operation ever since
the introduction of O_PATH through magic-links, so adding this feature
is only an improvement for programs that have to mess around with
/proc/self/fd/$n today to get this behaviour. In addition,
fchownat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) has existed since the introduction of O_PATH and
allows chown() operations directly on O_PATH descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230728-fchmodat2-at_empty_path-v1-1-f3add31d3516@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>1 parent 4859c25 commit 5daeb41
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