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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:48:40 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: enh <enh@...gle.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Tony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] add renameat2 linux syscall wrapper
On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 07:49:47AM -0700, enh wrote:
> 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.
In many cases, there's potential breakage if both are included, so I
don't think this is necessarily a good reason. OTOH I don't think
we're really consistent about this in musl, so I don't have a strong
preference either 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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