On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 06:27:17PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:

> -int do_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode)
> +int do_fchmodat4(int dfd, const char __user *filename, umode_t mode, int 
> flags)
>  {
>       struct path path;
>       int error;
> -     unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
> +     unsigned int lookup_flags;
> +
> +     if (unlikely(flags & ~AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW))
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +
> +     lookup_flags = flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW ? 0 : LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
> +

        Why not do that in sys_fchmodat4() itself, passing lookup_flags to
do_fchmodat() and updating old callers to pass it 0 as extra argument?

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