Re: [PATCH] anonfd: Make file read-only if fops->write is not set

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:46:11PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c
> index 2c99459..097f91f 100644
> --- a/fs/anon_inodes.c
> +++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c
> @@ -121,13 +121,13 @@ struct file *anon_inode_getfile(const char *name,
>  	d_instantiate(path.dentry, anon_inode_inode);
>  
>  	error = -ENFILE;
> -	file = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_READ | FMODE_WRITE, fops);
> +	file = alloc_file(&path, FMODE_READ | (fops->write ? FMODE_WRITE : 0), fops);

Good grief, what for?  We are already passing O_NDELAY in flags argument,
why not add O_RDWR/O_RDONLY to it?  It's not as if we had that many
callers, after all...
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