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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:00:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241016140050.GI4017910@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241016-reingehen-glanz-809bd92bf4ab@brauner>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 10:32:16AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:

> > ended up calling user_path_at() with empty pathname and nothing like LOOKUP_EMPTY
> > in lookup_flags.  Which bails out with -ENOENT, since getname() in there does
> > so.  My variant bails out with -EBADF and I'd argue that neither is correct.
> > 
> > Not sure what's the sane solution here, need to think for a while...
> 
> Fwiw, in the other thread we concluded to just not care about AT_FDCWD with "".
> And so far I agree with that.

Subject:?

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-16 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-09  4:03 [RFC][PATCH] getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in Al Viro
2024-10-15 14:05 ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-16  5:09   ` Al Viro
2024-10-16  8:32     ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-16 14:00       ` Al Viro [this message]
2024-10-16 14:49         ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-17 23:54           ` Al Viro
2024-10-18 11:06             ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-18 16:51               ` Al Viro
2024-10-18 19:38                 ` Al Viro
2024-10-19  5:03                   ` Al Viro
2024-10-19 16:15                     ` Linus Torvalds
2024-10-19 17:11                       ` Al Viro
2024-10-19 17:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2024-10-21 12:38                         ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-21 12:39                     ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-21 17:09                       ` Al Viro
2024-10-21 22:43                         ` Al Viro
2024-10-22  8:49                           ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-30  6:37                             ` Al Viro
2024-10-21 12:47                   ` Christian Brauner
2024-10-21 17:05                     ` Al Viro
2024-10-21 12:36                 ` Christian Brauner

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