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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-07-30 06:18:03 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2008-08-01 11:25:24 -0400
commit1b7e190b4764ea3ca1080404dd593eae5230d2b3 (patch)
tree746fd04f54103c33927bf07e9df0cd79c9ab951d /fs/fcntl.c
parent1027abe8827b47f7e9c4ed6514fde3d44f79963c (diff)
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[PATCH] clean dup2() up a bit
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/fcntl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/fcntl.c53
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 2e40799daad6..ac4f7db9f134 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -63,31 +63,35 @@ asmlinkage long sys_dup3(unsigned int oldfd, unsigned int newfd, int flags)
return -EINVAL;
spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
- if (!(file = fcheck(oldfd)))
- goto out_unlock;
- get_file(file); /* We are now finished with oldfd */
-
err = expand_files(files, newfd);
+ file = fcheck(oldfd);
+ if (unlikely(!file))
+ goto Ebadf;
if (unlikely(err < 0)) {
if (err == -EMFILE)
- err = -EBADF;
- goto out_fput;
+ goto Ebadf;
+ goto out_unlock;
}
-
- /* To avoid races with open() and dup(), we will mark the fd as
- * in-use in the open-file bitmap throughout the entire dup2()
- * process. This is quite safe: do_close() uses the fd array
- * entry, not the bitmap, to decide what work needs to be
- * done. --sct */
- /* Doesn't work. open() might be there first. --AV */
-
- /* Yes. It's a race. In user space. Nothing sane to do */
+ /*
+ * We need to detect attempts to do dup2() over allocated but still
+ * not finished descriptor. NB: OpenBSD avoids that at the price of
+ * extra work in their equivalent of fget() - they insert struct
+ * file immediately after grabbing descriptor, mark it larval if
+ * more work (e.g. actual opening) is needed and make sure that
+ * fget() treats larval files as absent. Potentially interesting,
+ * but while extra work in fget() is trivial, locking implications
+ * and amount of surgery on open()-related paths in VFS are not.
+ * FreeBSD fails with -EBADF in the same situation, NetBSD "solution"
+ * deadlocks in rather amusing ways, AFAICS. All of that is out of
+ * scope of POSIX or SUS, since neither considers shared descriptor
+ * tables and this condition does not arise without those.
+ */
err = -EBUSY;
fdt = files_fdtable(files);
tofree = fdt->fd[newfd];
if (!tofree && FD_ISSET(newfd, fdt->open_fds))
- goto out_fput;
-
+ goto out_unlock;
+ get_file(file);
rcu_assign_pointer(fdt->fd[newfd], file);
FD_SET(newfd, fdt->open_fds);
if (flags & O_CLOEXEC)
@@ -98,17 +102,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_dup3(unsigned int oldfd, unsigned int newfd, int flags)
if (tofree)
filp_close(tofree, files);
- err = newfd;
-out:
- return err;
-out_unlock:
- spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
- goto out;
-out_fput:
+ return newfd;
+
+Ebadf:
+ err = -EBADF;
+out_unlock:
spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
- fput(file);
- goto out;
+ return err;
}
asmlinkage long sys_dup2(unsigned int oldfd, unsigned int newfd)