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    statx: reject unknown flags when using NULL path · 8c7493aa
    Eric Biggers authored
    
    
    The statx() system call currently accepts unknown flags when called with
    a NULL path to operate on a file descriptor.  Left unchanged, this could
    make it hard to introduce new query flags in the future, since
    applications may not be able to tell whether a given flag is supported.
    
    Fix this by failing the system call with EINVAL if any flags other than
    KSTAT_QUERY_FLAGS are specified in combination with a NULL path.
    
    Arguably, we could still permit known lookup-related flags such as
    AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW.  However, that would be inconsistent with how
    sys_utimensat() behaves when passed a NULL path, which seems to be the
    closest precedent.  And given that the NULL path case is (I believe)
    mainly intended to be used to implement a wrapper function like fstatx()
    that doesn't have a path argument, I think rejecting lookup-related
    flags too is probably the best choice.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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