Previously, VFS would use various subsets of a number of fproc
structure fields to store state when the process is blocked
(suspended) for various reasons. As a result, there was a fair
amount of abuse of fields, hidden state, and confusion as to
which fields were used with which suspension states.
Instead, the suspension state is now split into per-state
structures, which are then stored in a union. Each of the union's
structures should be accessed only right before, during, and right
after the fp_blocked_on field is set to the corresponding blocking
type. As a result, it is now very clear which fields are in use
at which times, and we even save a bit of memory as a side effect.
Change-Id: I5c24e353b6cb0c32eb41c70f89c5cfb23f6c93df
Any attempt to use open(2) to open a socket file now fails with
EOPNOTSUPP, as is common and in the process of being standardized.
The behavior and error code is now tested in test56.
Any attempt to open a file of which the type is not known to VFS
(e.g., as a result of bogus file system contents) now fails with EIO.
For now, this is a safety feature, to prevent VFS tripping over such
types in unchecked cases. In the future, a proper VFS code audit
should determine whether we can lift this restriction again, although
it does not seem particularly useful to be able to open files of
unknown types anyway. Another error code may be assigned to this case
later, too.
Change-Id: Ib4cb4341eec954f0448fe469ecf28bd78edebde2
For dynamically linked executables, the interpreter is passed a
file descriptor of the binary being executed. To this end, VFS
opens the target executable, but opening the file fails if it is
not readable, even when it is executable. With this patch, when
opening the executable, it verifies the X bit rather than the R
bit on the file, thus allowing the execution of dynamically
linked binaries that are executable but not readable.
Add test86 to verify correctness.
Change-Id: If3514add6a33b33d52c05a0a627d757bff118d77
There is no reason to keep these tightly coupled data structures
separate. Moreover, there is no reason to have a union of file
descriptor and file pointer, since the second can be derived from
the first. The result are somewhat cleaner VFS internals.
Change-Id: I854da7d8291177878eecfc3077ef0a9e0cc82aaa
