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vfs: allow O_PATH file descriptors for fstatfs()
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:35:10 +0000 (08:35 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:54:54 +0000 (10:54 -0700)
commit97e439cda6547140f98285e8c000f5e2e4a47925
treef14a51cfaf307ec9ecd6b179e4ecfd598c0d7136
parent8973e0796f0d9e356aabbdeae938098d347e97c6
vfs: allow O_PATH file descriptors for fstatfs()

commit 9d05746e7b16d8565dddbe3200faa1e669d23bbf upstream.

Olga reported that file descriptors opened with O_PATH do not work with
fstatfs(), found during further development of ksh93's thread support.

There is no reason to not allow O_PATH file descriptors here (fstatfs is
very much a path operation), so use "fdget_raw()".  See commit
55815f70147d ("vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for 'fstat()'")
for a very similar issue reported for fstat() by the same team.

Reported-and-tested-by: ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/statfs.c