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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/stat.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c index c6c963b2546b..3d85747bd86e 100644 --- a/fs/stat.c +++ b/fs/stat.c @@ -547,13 +547,13 @@ cp_statx(const struct kstat *stat, struct statx __user *buffer) /** * sys_statx - System call to get enhanced stats * @dfd: Base directory to pathwalk from *or* fd to stat. - * @filename: File to stat *or* NULL. + * @filename: File to stat or "" with AT_EMPTY_PATH * @flags: AT_* flags to control pathwalk. * @mask: Parts of statx struct actually required. * @buffer: Result buffer. * - * Note that if filename is NULL, then it does the equivalent of fstat() using - * dfd to indicate the file of interest. + * Note that fstat() can be emulated by setting dfd to the fd of interest, + * supplying "" as the filename and setting AT_EMPTY_PATH in the flags. */ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(statx, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, unsigned, flags, @@ -567,11 +567,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(statx, return -EINVAL; if ((flags & AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE) == AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE) return -EINVAL; + if (!filename) + return -EINVAL; - if (filename) - error = vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags, &stat, mask); - else - error = vfs_statx_fd(dfd, &stat, mask, flags); + error = vfs_statx(dfd, filename, flags, &stat, mask); if (error) return error; |