Re: [PATCH] early init: open /dev/console with O_LARGEFILE

From: Arvind Sankar
Date: Wed Jan 01 2020 - 13:32:49 EST


On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 07:30:19PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 04:02:26PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> > If force_o_largefile() is true, /dev/console used to be opened
> > with O_LARGEFILE. Retain that behaviour.
> >
>
> One other thing that used to happen is fsnotify_open() -- I don't know
> how that might affect this, but it seems like the only thing left that's
> different.

Also, this shouldn't impact the current issue I think, but won't doing
filp_open followed by 3 f_dupfd's cause the file->f_count to become 4
but with only 3 open fd's? Don't we have to do an fd_install for the
first one and only 2 f_dupfd's?