On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 09:22:03PM +0600, Dorjoy Chowdhury wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM Christian Brauner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:22:21 +0600, Dorjoy Chowdhury wrote: > > > I came upon this "Ability to only open regular files" uapi feature > > > suggestion > > > from > > > https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#ability-to-only-open-regular-files > > > and thought it would be something I could do as a first patch and get to > > > know the kernel code a bit better. > > > > > > The following filesystems have been tested by building and booting the > > > kernel > > > x86 bzImage in a Fedora 43 VM in QEMU. I have tested with OPENAT2_REGULAR > > > that > > > regular files can be successfully opened and non-regular files > > > (directory, fifo etc) > > > return -EFTYPE. > > > - btrfs > > > - NFS (loopback) > > > - SMB (loopback) > > > > > > [...] > > > > - I've added an explanation why OPENAT2_REGULAR is only needed for some > > ->atomic_open() implementers but not others. What I don't like is that > > we need all that custom handling in there but it's managable. > > > > - I dropped the topmost style conversions. They really don't belong > > there and if we switch to something better we should use (1 << <nr>). > > > > - I split the EFTYPE errno introduction into a separate patch. > > > > --- > > Thanks for fixing up and picking this one up! > > > > > Applied to the vfs-7.2.openat.regular branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. > > Patches in the vfs-7.2.openat.regular branch should appear in linux-next > > soon. > > > > I don't see a vfs-7.2.openat.regular branch in vfs/vfs.git tree in > git.kernel.org. Maybe this hasn't been pushed yet?
Nothing will get pushed prior to -rc1 which is due this Sunday.
