From 628ff7c1d8d8466a5ad8078bd0206a130f8b8a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:41:24 -0800 Subject: anonfd: Allow making anon files read-only It seems a couple places such as arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c and drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c could use anon_inode_getfile() instead of a private pseudo-fs + alloc_file(), if only there were a way to get a read-only file. So provide this by having anon_inode_getfile() create a read-only file if we pass O_RDONLY in flags. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c index e0eb4a2fe183..1f38270f08c7 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_event.c +++ b/kernel/perf_event.c @@ -4724,7 +4724,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, if (IS_ERR(event)) goto err_put_context; - err = anon_inode_getfd("[perf_event]", &perf_fops, event, 0); + err = anon_inode_getfd("[perf_event]", &perf_fops, event, O_RDWR); if (err < 0) goto err_free_put_context; -- cgit v1.2.3