[PATCH v4 0/4] openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support

[Dorjoy Chowdhury <dorjoychy111@gmail.com>]

Note that in v4, for now, I have returned -EINVAL from the atomic_open codepaths.
I do want to make this new flag properly supported and proper api behavior, but
last time I could not quite understand what should be done for the atomic_open
codepaths. So to have a more concrete discussion, I have included the -EINVAL
changes.

Changes in v4:
- changed O_REGULAR to OPENAT2_REGULAR
- OPENAT2_REGULAR does not affect O_PATH
- OPENAT2_REGULAR with O_DIRECTORY will open path for both directory or regular file
- atomic_open codepaths updated to return -EINVAL when OPENAT2_REGULAR is set
- commit message includes the uapi-group URL
- v3 is at: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260127180109.66691-1-dorjoychy111@gmail.com/T/

Changes in v3:
- included motivation about O_REGULAR flag in commit message e.g., programs not wanting to be tricked into opening device nodes
- fixed commit message wrongly referencing ENOTREGULAR instead of ENOTREG
- fixed the O_REGULAR flag in arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h from 060000000 to 0100000000
- added 2 commits converting arch/{mips,sparc}/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h O_* macros from hex to octal
- v2 is at: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260126154156.55723-1-dorjoychy111@gmail.com/T/

Changes in v2:
- rename ENOTREGULAR to ENOTREG
- define ENOTREG in uapi/asm-generic/errno.h (instead of errno-base.h) and in arch/*/include/uapi/asm/errno.h files
- override O_REGULAR in arch/{alpha,sparc,parisc}/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h due to clash with include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h
- I have kept the kselftest but now that O_REGULAR and ENOTREG can have different value on different architectures I am not sure if it's right
- v1 is at: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260125141518.59493-1-dorjoychy111@gmail.com/T/

Hi,

I came upon this "Ability to only open regular files" uapi feature suggestion
from https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#ability-to-only-open-regular-files
and thought it would be something I could do as a first patch and get to
know the kernel code a bit better.

I am not quite sure if the semantics that I baked into the code for this
O_REGULAR flag's behavior when combined with other flags like O_CREAT look
good and if there are other places that need the checks. I can fixup my
patch according to suggestions for improvement. I did some happy path testing
and the O_REGULAR flag seems to work as intended.

Thanks.

Regards,
Dorjoy

Dorjoy Chowdhury (4):
  openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support
  kselftest/openat2: test for OPENAT2_REGULAR flag
  sparc/fcntl.h: convert O_* flag macros from hex to octal
  mips/fcntl.h: convert O_* flag macros from hex to octal

 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/errno.h           |  2 +
 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h           |  1 +
 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/errno.h            |  2 +
 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h            | 22 ++++-----
 arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h          |  2 +
 arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h          |  1 +
 arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h           |  2 +
 arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/fcntl.h           | 35 +++++++-------
 fs/9p/vfs_inode.c                             |  3 ++
 fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c                        |  3 ++
 fs/ceph/file.c                                |  3 ++
 fs/fuse/dir.c                                 |  3 ++
 fs/gfs2/inode.c                               |  3 ++
 fs/namei.c                                    |  9 +++-
 fs/nfs/dir.c                                  |  3 ++
 fs/nfs/file.c                                 |  3 ++
 fs/open.c                                     |  2 +-
 fs/smb/client/dir.c                           |  3 ++
 fs/vboxsf/dir.c                               |  3 ++
 include/linux/fcntl.h                         |  2 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h              |  2 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h              |  4 ++
 tools/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/errno.h     |  2 +
 tools/arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/errno.h      |  2 +
 tools/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h    |  2 +
 tools/arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/errno.h     |  2 +
 tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h        |  2 +
 .../testing/selftests/openat2/openat2_test.c  | 46 ++++++++++++++++++-
 28 files changed, 138 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

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