From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
mknod("foo", 0644) returns EINVAL, even though it should succeed.
The responsible patch is this:
r-o-bind-mounts-sys_mknodat-elevate-write-count-for-vfs_mknod-create.patch
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Index: linux/fs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/fs/namei.c 2007-09-26 00:36:15.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/fs/namei.c 2007-09-26 00:51:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mknodat(int dfd, con
goto out_dput;
}
if (!S_ISREG(mode) && !S_ISCHR(mode) && !S_ISBLK(mode) &&
- !S_ISFIFO(mode) && !S_ISSOCK(mode) && mode != 0) {
+ !S_ISFIFO(mode) && !S_ISSOCK(mode) && (mode & S_IFMT) != 0) {
error = -EINVAL;
goto out_dput;
}
-
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