On 5/7/20 1:01 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:57:25PM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote: >> If an operation's flag `needs_file` is set, the function >> io_req_set_file() calls io_file_get() to obtain a `struct file*`. >> >> This fails for `O_PATH` file descriptors, because those have no >> `struct file*` > > O_PATH descriptors most certainly *do* have that. What the hell > are you talking about?
Yeah, hence I was interested in the test case. Since this is bypassing that part, was assuming we'd have some logic error that attempted a file grab for a case where we shouldn't. -- Jens Axboe
