Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] fs: Add fchmodat4()

[Alexey Gladkov]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:52:01PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:42:19PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 13:25, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> > > From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > On the userspace side fchmodat(3) is implemented as a wrapper
> > > function which implements the POSIX-specified interface. This
> > > interface differs from the underlying kernel system call, which does not
> > > have a flags argument. Most implementations require procfs [1][2].
> > >
> > > There doesn't appear to be a good userspace workaround for this issue
> > > but the implementation in the kernel is pretty straight-forward.
> > >
> > > The new fchmodat4() syscall allows to pass the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag,
> > > unlike existing fchmodat.
> > >
> > > [1] 
> > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35
> > > [2] 
> > > https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I don't know the history of why we ended up with the different
> > interface, or whether this was done intentionally in the kernel
> > or if we want this syscall.
> > 
> > Assuming this is in fact needed, I double-checked that the
> > implementation looks correct to me and is portable to all the
> > architectures, without the need for a compat wrapper.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> The system call itself is useful afaict. But please,
> 
> s/fchmodat4/fchmodat2/

Sure. I will.

> With very few exceptions we don't version by argument number but by
> revision and we should stick to one scheme:
> 
> openat()->openat2()
> eventfd()->eventfd2()
> clone()/clone2()->clone3()
> dup()->dup2()->dup3() // coincides with nr of arguments
> pipe()->pipe2() // coincides with nr of arguments
> renameat()->renameat2()
> 

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Rgrds, legion