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statx: Kill fd-with-NULL-path support in favour of AT_EMPTY_PATH
With the new statx() syscall, the following both allow the attributes of the file attached to a file descriptor to be retrieved: statx(dfd, NULL, 0, ...); and: statx(dfd, "", AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...); Change the code to reject the first option, though this means copying the path and engaging pathwalk for the fstat() equivalent. dfd can be a non-directory provided path is "". [ The timing of this isn't wonderful, but applying this now before we have statx() in any released kernel, before anybody starts using the NULL special case. - Linus ] Fixes: a528d35 ("statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available") Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> cc: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]> cc: [email protected] cc: [email protected] cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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