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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index d11f404667e..87f97ba90ad 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1279,28 +1279,6 @@ struct dentry *lookup_one_len(const char *name, struct dentry *base, int len) return __lookup_hash(&this, base, NULL); } -/** - * lookup_one_noperm - bad hack for sysfs - * @name: pathname component to lookup - * @base: base directory to lookup from - * - * This is a variant of lookup_one_len that doesn't perform any permission - * checks. It's a horrible hack to work around the braindead sysfs - * architecture and should not be used anywhere else. - * - * DON'T USE THIS FUNCTION EVER, thanks. - */ -struct dentry *lookup_one_noperm(const char *name, struct dentry *base) -{ - int err; - struct qstr this; - - err = __lookup_one_len(name, &this, base, strlen(name)); - if (err) - return ERR_PTR(err); - return __lookup_hash(&this, base, NULL); -} - int user_path_at(int dfd, const char __user *name, unsigned flags, struct path *path) { @@ -1678,6 +1656,15 @@ struct file *do_filp_open(int dfd, const char *pathname, int will_write; int flag = open_to_namei_flags(open_flag); + /* + * O_SYNC is implemented as __O_SYNC|O_DSYNC. As many places only + * check for O_DSYNC if the need any syncing at all we enforce it's + * always set instead of having to deal with possibly weird behaviour + * for malicious applications setting only __O_SYNC. + */ + if (open_flag & __O_SYNC) + open_flag |= O_DSYNC; + if (!acc_mode) acc_mode = MAY_OPEN | ACC_MODE(flag); |