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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/libfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/libfs.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index 6393d7c49ee6e6..e1146620346e22 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -1647,7 +1647,13 @@ struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s) * that it already _is_ on the dirty list. */ inode->i_state = I_DIRTY; - inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR; + /* + * Historically anonymous inodes didn't have a type at all and + * userspace has come to rely on this. Internally they're just + * regular files but S_IFREG is masked off when reporting + * information to userspace. + */ + inode->i_mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR; inode->i_uid = current_fsuid(); inode->i_gid = current_fsgid(); inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE; |