On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:17:11PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> +/* how->upgrade flags for openat2(2). */
> +/* First bit is reserved for a future UPGRADE_NOEXEC flag. */
> +#define UPGRADE_NOREAD 0x02 /* Block re-opening with MAY_READ.
> */
> +#define UPGRADE_NOWRITE 0
/* Background. */
For a very long time, extending openat(2) with new features has been
incredibly frustrating. This stems from the fact that openat(2) is
possibly the most famous counter-example to the mantra "don't silently
accept garbage from userspace" -- it doesn't check whether unknown flags
a
