RE: [PATCH] Tools: hv: fix file overwriting of hv_fcopy_daemon

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Thu Jun 26 2014 - 16:43:56 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yue Zhang [mailto:yuezha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 2:09 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan; Haiyang Zhang; driverdev-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; olaf@xxxxxxxxx; jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx;
> apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Dexuan Cui; Thomas Shao
> Subject: [PATCH] Tools: hv: fix file overwriting of hv_fcopy_daemon
>
> From: Yue Zhang <yuezha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> hv_fcopy_daemon fails to overwrite a file if the target file already exits.
>
> Add O_TRUNC flag on opening.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yue Zhang <yuezha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c
> index fba1c75..01eee6b 100644
> --- a/tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c
> +++ b/tools/hv/hv_fcopy_daemon.c
> @@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ static int hv_start_fcopy(struct hv_start_fcopy *smsg)
> }
> }
>
> - target_fd = open(target_fname, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_CLOEXEC,
> 0744);
> + target_fd = open(target_fname,
> + O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC |
Please align O_RDWR to align with the first argument (target_fname).

K. Y

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