Re: For the condition "file->f_mode", when it failed, it should return EACCES rather than EBADF.

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On Sun, Feb 03 2013, majianpeng wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	When I wanted to do discard operations,but i set the  openflag was O_RDONLY,it returned a EBADF rather than EACCES or EPERM.
> I searched the code and found:
> >case BLKDISCARD:
> >case BLKSECDISCARD: {
> >		uint64_t range[2];
> 
> >		if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
> >			return -EBADF;
> Initial i thought there was error.But i searched all code of kernel and found some places like this.
> 
> The description of EBADF is "Bad file numbe". There are some places where returned EBADF like,
> >if (!f.file)
> >		return -EBADF;
> 
> So i think for checking file->f_mode when failed, it should return EACCESS.

But that would break the ABI at this point. I agree with you, though,
EBADF is not the right error for this case.

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Jens Axboe