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Added by Daniel P. Berrange about 12 years ago

hw/9pfs: Remove O_NOATIME flag from 9pfs open() calls in readonly mode

When 2c74c2cb4bedddbfa67628fbd5f9273b4e0e9903 added support for
the 'readonly' flag against 9p filesystems, it also made QEMU
add the O_NOATIME flag as a side-effect.

The O_NOATIME flag, however, may only be set by the file owner,
or a user with CAP_FOWNER capability. QEMU cannot assume that
this is the case for filesytems exported to QEMU.

eg, run QEMU as non-root, and attempt to pass the host OS
filesystem through to the guest OS with readonly enable.
The result is that the guest OS cannot open any files at
all.

If O_NOATIME is really required, it should be optionally
enabled via a separate QEMU command line flag.

  • hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c: Remove O_NOATIME

Acked-by: M. Mohan Kumar <>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <>

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