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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-08-15 21:03:26 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-09-26 21:08:55 -0400
commit56007cae94f349387c088e738c7dcb6bc513063b (patch)
treeb501eb1cc30619cb1cc9828a18256808546389de /fs/file.c
parent1983e781da2f7f77906f4ccc2c3dc279cd61d1ff (diff)
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move put_unused_fd() and fd_install() to fs/file.c
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 4ce4a0fcf320..78cf88f2a0e8 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -569,3 +569,47 @@ int get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags)
return __alloc_fd(current->files, 0, rlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE), flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_unused_fd_flags);
+
+static void __put_unused_fd(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd)
+{
+ struct fdtable *fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+ __clear_open_fd(fd, fdt);
+ if (fd < files->next_fd)
+ files->next_fd = fd;
+}
+
+void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd)
+{
+ struct files_struct *files = current->files;
+ spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
+ __put_unused_fd(files, fd);
+ spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_unused_fd);
+
+/*
+ * Install a file pointer in the fd array.
+ *
+ * The VFS is full of places where we drop the files lock between
+ * setting the open_fds bitmap and installing the file in the file
+ * array. At any such point, we are vulnerable to a dup2() race
+ * installing a file in the array before us. We need to detect this and
+ * fput() the struct file we are about to overwrite in this case.
+ *
+ * It should never happen - if we allow dup2() do it, _really_ bad things
+ * will follow.
+ */
+
+void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file)
+{
+ struct files_struct *files = current->files;
+ struct fdtable *fdt;
+ spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
+ fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+ BUG_ON(fdt->fd[fd] != NULL);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[fd], file);
+ spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fd_install);