Re: [PATCH] fs/io_uring: fix O_PATH fds in openat, openat2, statx

[Max Kellermann <mk@cm4all.com>]

On 2020/05/07 21:05, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> 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.

Reproduce this by patching liburing/test/lfs-openat.c:

-       int dfd = open("/tmp", O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY);
+       int dfd = open("/tmp", O_PATH);

 $ ./test/lfs-openat
 io_uring openat failed: Bad file descriptor

GH PR: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/pull/130

Max