Re: [CRIU] [PATCH 1/4] signalfd: add ability to return siginfo in a raw format

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 12/28, Andrey Wagin wrote:
>
> 2012/12/28 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>:
> > On 12/28, Andrey Wagin wrote:
> >>
> >> 2012/12/28 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>:
> >> >> >> @@ -321,6 +372,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(signalfd4, int, ufd, sigset_t __user *, user_mask,
> >> >> >>               }
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>               file->f_flags |= flags & SFD_RAW;
> >> >> >> +             file->f_mode |= FMODE_PREAD;
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>               fd_install(ufd, file);
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hmm. Looks like it is based on other patches I didnt see...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > But I don't understand how FMODE_PREAD connects to this patch, we need
> >> >> > this flag set even for regular sys_read() ???
> >> >>
> >> >> It doesn't need for sys_read(), but this patch is about pread() and
> >> >> sys_pread() checks it.
> >> >>
> >> >> SYSCALL_DEFINE(pread64)(unsigned int fd, char __user *buf,
> >> >>                         size_t count, loff_t pos)
> >> >> {
> >> >> ....
> >> >>         if (f.file) {
> >> >>                 ret = -ESPIPE;
> >> >>                 if (f.file->f_mode & FMODE_PREAD)
> >> >>                         ret = vfs_read(f.file, buf, count, &pos);
> >> >
> >> > And sys_read() checks it too, that was my point.
> >>
> >> sys_read() doesn't check this flag. I tryed to remove this code from
> >> this patch and pread returned ESPIPE as expected.
> >
> > sys_read() calls vfs_read() which checks f_mode & FMODE_READ at the
> > start ?
>
> FMODE_READ != FMODE_PREAD ;)

OOPS ;)

I did not even know we have FMODE_PREAD! I perceived this define as
FMODE_READ.

Thanks for correctting me.

Oleg.