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Vasily Gorbik edaad2a927 chreipl: correct read-only attributes handling
chreipl could only be used as root (effective userid 0), which is
explicitly checked upon invocation.

"access" call is a wrong method to check super user read/write access
for sysfs files, because it is simply always returns 0 (success), despite
actual sysfs file permissions or underlying sysfs file callbacks setup.
The only guaranteed way of checking sysfs file super user access is an
actual open call with the corresponding access mode.

The problem is that chreipl always tries to update some sysfs attributes
even through they are not specified as command line arguments. Together
with a broken sysfs file access checks this leads to inability to use
the tool, when some sysfs attributes are read-only (which is the case
on older systems where diag308 set does not work).

$ chreipl ccw -d 0.0.ec5a
chreipl: Could not open "reipl/ccw/parm" (Permission denied)

The change fixes access checks, which are in place to handle "diag308
set does not work" case (presence of read-only sysfs attributes).

Also replaces R_OK with F_OK in "set_target_type_auto" to underline that
only file presence is checked, not an actual read access.

Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Höppner <hoeppner@linux.ibm.com>
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