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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:49:47 -0700
From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] add renameat2 linux syscall wrapper

fwiw, i wrote out the constants with shifts in bionic because that's
what the uapi headers do (<linux/fs.h> iirc), and the preprocessor
won't get upset if someone includes both this way.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 08:36:40AM -0700, Tony Ambardar wrote:
> > This syscall is available since Linux 3.15 and also implemented in glibc
> > from version 2.28. It is commonly used in filesystem or security contexts.
> >
> > Defines RENAME_NOREPLACE, RENAME_EXCHANGE, RENAME_WHITEOUT are guarded by
> > _GNU_SOURCE as with glibc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  include/stdio.h       | 7 +++++++
> >  src/linux/renameat2.c | 8 ++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 src/linux/renameat2.c
> >
> > diff --git a/include/stdio.h b/include/stdio.h
> > index cb858618..8312c3bf 100644
> > --- a/include/stdio.h
> > +++ b/include/stdio.h
> > @@ -158,6 +158,13 @@ char *ctermid(char *);
> >  #define L_ctermid 20
> >  #endif
> >
> > +#if defined(_GNU_SOURCE)
> > +#define RENAME_NOREPLACE (1 << 0)
> > +#define RENAME_EXCHANGE (1 << 1)
> > +#define RENAME_WHITEOUT (1 << 2)
> > +
> > +int renameat2(int, const char *, int, const char *, unsigned int);
> > +#endif
>
> s/unsigned int/unsigned/ and maybe just write out the constants? I
> think that's the style musl uses most places.
>
> >  #if defined(_XOPEN_SOURCE) || defined(_GNU_SOURCE) \
> >   || defined(_BSD_SOURCE)
> > diff --git a/src/linux/renameat2.c b/src/linux/renameat2.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 00000000..3062aa15
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/src/linux/renameat2.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> > +#define _GNU_SOURCE
> > +#include <stdio.h>
> > +#include "syscall.h"
> > +
> > +int renameat2(int oldfd, const char *old, int newfd, const char *new, unsigned int flags)
> > +{
> > +     return syscall(SYS_renameat2, oldfd, old, newfd, new, flags);
> > +}
> > --
> > 2.34.1
>
> This probably at least needs to support flags==0 on kernels without
> SYS_renameat2 by calling renameat in that case. Then I'm not sure if
> ENOSYS should be kept if the new syscall is missing, or just EINVAL or
> whatever is used to report unsupported flags.
>
> Rich

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