From: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Subject: [PATCH v2] vfs: add support for empty path to openat2(2)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 14:16:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260302131650.3259153-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> (raw)
To get an operable version of an O_PATH file descriptors, it is possible
to use openat(fd, ".", O_DIRECTORY) for directories, but other files
currently require going through open("/proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>") which
depends on a functioning procfs.
This patch adds the OPENAT2_EMPTY_PATH flag to openat2(2). If passed
LOOKUP_EMPTY is set at path resolve time.
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
---
fs/open.c | 9 ++++-----
include/linux/fcntl.h | 5 ++++-
include/uapi/linux/openat2.h | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 91f1139591ab..4f0a76dc8993 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1160,7 +1160,7 @@ struct file *kernel_file_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_file_open);
#define WILL_CREATE(flags) (flags & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE))
-#define O_PATH_FLAGS (O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC)
+#define O_PATH_FLAGS (O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC | OPENAT2_EMPTY_PATH)
inline struct open_how build_open_how(int flags, umode_t mode)
{
@@ -1185,9 +1185,6 @@ inline int build_open_flags(const struct open_how *how, struct open_flags *op)
int lookup_flags = 0;
int acc_mode = ACC_MODE(flags);
- BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(upper_32_bits(VALID_OPEN_FLAGS),
- "struct open_flags doesn't yet handle flags > 32 bits");
-
/*
* Strip flags that aren't relevant in determining struct open_flags.
*/
@@ -1281,6 +1278,8 @@ inline int build_open_flags(const struct open_how *how, struct open_flags *op)
lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_DIRECTORY;
if (!(flags & O_NOFOLLOW))
lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+ if (flags & OPENAT2_EMPTY_PATH)
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY;
if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_NO_XDEV)
lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_XDEV;
@@ -1362,7 +1361,7 @@ static int do_sys_openat2(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
if (unlikely(err))
return err;
- CLASS(filename, name)(filename);
+ CLASS(filename_flags, name)(filename, op.lookup_flags);
return FD_ADD(how->flags, do_file_open(dfd, name, &op));
}
diff --git a/include/linux/fcntl.h b/include/linux/fcntl.h
index a332e79b3207..d1bb87ff70e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/linux/fcntl.h
@@ -7,10 +7,13 @@
/* List of all valid flags for the open/openat flags argument: */
#define VALID_OPEN_FLAGS \
+ /* lower 32-bit flags */ \
(O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY | O_TRUNC | \
O_APPEND | O_NDELAY | O_NONBLOCK | __O_SYNC | O_DSYNC | \
FASYNC | O_DIRECT | O_LARGEFILE | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | \
- O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | O_PATH | __O_TMPFILE)
+ O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | O_PATH | __O_TMPFILE | \
+ /* upper 32-bit flags (openat2(2) only) */ \
+ OPENAT2_EMPTY_PATH)
/* List of all valid flags for the how->resolve argument: */
#define VALID_RESOLVE_FLAGS \
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h b/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h
index a5feb7604948..c34f32e6fa96 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/openat2.h
@@ -40,4 +40,8 @@ struct open_how {
return -EAGAIN if that's not
possible. */
+/* openat2(2) exclusive flags are defined in the upper 32 bits of
+ open_how->flags */
+#define OPENAT2_EMPTY_PATH 0x100000000 /* (1ULL << 32) */
+
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_OPENAT2_H */
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-02 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-02 13:16 Jori Koolstra [this message]
2026-03-04 14:03 ` Christian Brauner
2026-03-05 0:26 ` Jori Koolstra
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