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created 2021-11-02T15:54:12Z
begin 2021-10-24T21:24:22Z
end 2021-10-24T21:37:49Z
path src/sys
commits 1

date 2021-10-24T21:37:49Z
author deraadt
files src/sys/dev/microcode/cyclades/cyzfirm2h.c log diff annotate
message For open/openat, if the flags parameter does not contain O_CREAT, the
3rd (variadic) mode_t parameter is irrelevant. Many developers in the past
have passed mode_t (0, 044, 0644, or such), which might lead future people
to copy this broken idiom, and perhaps even believe this parameter has some
meaning or implication or application. Delete them all.
This comes out of a conversation where tb@ noticed that a strange (but
intentional) pledge behaviour is to always knock-out high-bits from
mode_t on a number of system calls as a safety factor, and his bewilderment
that this appeared to be happening against valid modes (at least visually),
but no sorry, they are all irrelevant junk. They could all be 0xdeafbeef.
ok millert