[LTP] [PATCH] tst_creat_unlinked(): Add missing mode argument
Petr Vorel
pvorel@suse.cz
Fri Dec 13 23:02:58 CET 2024
Hi Martin,
> The open() syscall requires the mode parameter if O_CREAT flag is used.
> Add the missing mode parameter to the tst_creat_unlinked() helper function.
> Signed-off-by: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
> ---
> During investigation of strange hugemmap11 failures I've noticed that
> the test tries to create a scratch file with uninitialized access mode.
> This was unrelated to the failures but should be fixed anyway.
Good catch, rebased and merged.
I see from man open(2):
The mode argument specifies the file mode bits to be applied when a new file
is created. If neither O_CREAT nor O_TMPFILE is specified in flags, then
mode is ignored (and can thus be specified as 0, or simply omitted). The
mode argument must be supplied if O_CREAT or O_TMPFILE is specified in
flags; if it is not supplied, some arbitrary bytes from the stack will be
applied as the file mode.
It looks like that all O_TMPFILE are covered. Too late now to check O_CREAT.
It would be handy if somebody spent time to add this check into our sparse
checks.
Kind regards,
Petr
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