[RESEND][PATCH] ima: Set and clear FMODE_CAN_READ in ima_calc_file_hash()
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Mon Nov 16 16:22:02 UTC 2020
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 08:52:19AM +0000, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> FMODE_CAN_READ was not set because f_mode does not have
> FMODE_READ. In the patch, I check if the former can be set
> similarly to the way it is done in file_table.c and open.c.
>
> Is there a better way to read a file when the file was not opened
> for reading and a new file descriptor cannot be created?
You can't open a file not open for reading. The file system or device
driver might have to prepare read-specific resources in ->open to
support reads. So what you'll have to do is to open a new instance
of the file that is open for reading.
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