Re: [PATCH] fs/io_uring: fix O_PATH fds in openat, openat2, statx

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu May 07 2020 - 15:01:39 EST


On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:57:25PM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote:
> If an operation's flag `needs_file` is set, the function
> io_req_set_file() calls io_file_get() to obtain a `struct file*`.
>
> This fails for `O_PATH` file descriptors, because those have no
> `struct file*`

O_PATH descriptors most certainly *do* have that. What the hell
are you talking about?