Re: [GIT PULL] TPM DEVICE DRIVER: tpmdd-next-v6.18
From: James Bottomley
Date: Mon Oct 06 2025 - 19:11:27 EST
On Mon, 2025-10-06 at 22:40 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> What should we do if we get O_EXCL and O_RDONLY? Return an error?
> Ignore the O_EXCL flag?
As a command/response interface, it can't be operated read only ... so
I think we should just return -EINVAL (or something more appropriate)
if someone tries to open it O_RDONLY regardless of O_EXCL.
Regards,
James