Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add AT_EMPTY_PATH_NOCHECK as unchecked AT_EMPTY_PATH

[Christian Brauner]

On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 03:41:19PM GMT, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 at 14:25, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +cc Linus
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > To sum up the problem: stat and statx met with "" + AT_EMPTY_PATH have
> > more work to do than fstat and its hypotethical statx counterpart:
> > - buf alloc/free for the path
> > - userspace access (very painful on x86_64 + SMAP)
> > - lockref acquire/release
> 
> Yes. That LOOKUP_EMPTY_NOCHECK is *not* the fix.

I have explicitly NAKed an approach like this months ago in [1]. So I'm
not sure why we're getting that patch in the first place tbh.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/599df4a3-47a4-49be-9c81-8e21ea1f988a@xxxxxxxxxx