Re: [PATCH RESEND] floppy: fix open(O_ACCMODE) for ioctl-only open

[Wim Osterholt]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 01:18:00PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Commit 09954bad4 ("floppy: refactor open() flags handling"), as a 
> side-effect, causes open(/dev/fdX, O_ACCMODE) to fail. It turns out that 
> this is being used setfdprm userspace for ioctl-only open().
> 
> Reintroduce back the original behavior wrt !(FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE) 
> modes, while still keeping the original O_NDELAY bug fixed.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.5+
> Reported-by: Wim Osterholt <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Wim Osterholt <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Jens, this should preferably go into 4.7-rcX and to -stable as well.
> 

How come this patch is still not in the recent release of 4.7 ?



Regards, Wim.