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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] vfs: implement fchmodat2() syscall
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On 04/11/2017 01:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:

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> But even if using open(O_PATH)/fchmod() works, it is not immediately
> obvious whether it can catch all the same cases that chmodat(O_NOFOLLOW)

Typo; I obviously meant fchmodat(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)

> would cover, as there are cases where you have permissions to change
> mode bits but not open() the file for reading or writing. And even if
> it gets rid of a TOCTTOU race, it still is a 2-syscall hit rather than
> an atomic single syscall.
>

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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