proc/fd: In proc_fd_link use fget_task
When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none
of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call
get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions
instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary
increments of files_struct.count. Those unnecessary increments can
result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking
posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to
fget reducing system performance.
Simplifying proc_fd_link is a little bit tricky. It is necessary to
know that there is a reference to fd_f ile while path_get is running.
This reference can either be guaranteed to exist either by locking the
fdtable as the code currently does or by taking a reference on the
file in question.
Use fget_task to remove the need for get_files_struct and
to take a reference to file in question.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-8-ebiederm@xmission.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-6-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
diff --git a/fs/proc/fd.c b/fs/proc/fd.c
index 81882a1..d58960f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/fd.c
+++ b/fs/proc/fd.c
@@ -146,29 +146,22 @@ static const struct dentry_operations tid_fd_dentry_operations = {
static int proc_fd_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *path)
{
- struct files_struct *files = NULL;
struct task_struct *task;
int ret = -ENOENT;
task = get_proc_task(d_inode(dentry));
if (task) {
- files = get_files_struct(task);
- put_task_struct(task);
- }
-
- if (files) {
unsigned int fd = proc_fd(d_inode(dentry));
struct file *fd_file;
- spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
- fd_file = fcheck_files(files, fd);
+ fd_file = fget_task(task, fd);
if (fd_file) {
*path = fd_file->f_path;
path_get(&fd_file->f_path);
ret = 0;
+ fput(fd_file);
}
- spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
- put_files_struct(files);
+ put_task_struct(task);
}
return ret;