Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support for openat2

[Christian Brauner]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:22:21 +0600, Dorjoy Chowdhury wrote:
> I came upon this "Ability to only open regular files" uapi feature suggestion
> from https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#ability-to-only-open-regular-files
> and thought it would be something I could do as a first patch and get to
> know the kernel code a bit better.
> 
> The following filesystems have been tested by building and booting the kernel
> x86 bzImage in a Fedora 43 VM in QEMU. I have tested with OPENAT2_REGULAR that
> regular files can be successfully opened and non-regular files (directory, fifo etc)
> return -EFTYPE.
> - btrfs
> - NFS (loopback)
> - SMB (loopback)
> 
> [...]

- I've added an explanation why OPENAT2_REGULAR is only needed for some
  ->atomic_open() implementers but not others. What I don't like is that
  we need all that custom handling in there but it's managable.

- I dropped the topmost style conversions. They really don't belong
  there and if we switch to something better we should use (1 << <nr>).

- I split the EFTYPE errno introduction into a separate patch.

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Applied to the vfs-7.2.openat.regular branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-7.2.openat.regular branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: master

[1/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/0b649c4d70f7
[2/4] kselftest/openat2: test for OPENAT2_REGULAR flag
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/d7dc36df8fa7
[3/4] sparc/fcntl.h: convert O_* flag macros from hex to octal
      (dropped)
[4/4] mips/fcntl.h: convert O_* flag macros from hex to octal
      (dropped)