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-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/timerfd.go5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/timerfd.go b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/timerfd.go
index 7938a5249..839a07db1 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/timerfd.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/syscalls/linux/vfs2/timerfd.go
@@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ func TimerfdCreate(t *kernel.Task, args arch.SyscallArguments) (uintptr, *kernel
default:
return 0, nil, syserror.EINVAL
}
- file, err := t.Kernel().VFS().NewTimerFD(clock, fileFlags)
+ // Timerfds aren't writable per se (their implementation of Write just
+ // returns EINVAL), but they are "opened for writing", which is necessary
+ // to actually reach said implementation of Write.
+ file, err := t.Kernel().VFS().NewTimerFD(clock, linux.O_RDWR|fileFlags)
if err != nil {
return 0, nil, err
}