vfs, fdtable: Add fget_task helper
This introduces a function which can be used to fetch a file, given an
arbitrary task. As long as the user holds a reference (refcnt) to the
task_struct it is safe to call, and will either return NULL on failure,
or a pointer to the file, with a refcnt.
This patch is based on Oleg Nesterov's (cf. [1]) patch from September
2018.
[1]: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200107175927.4558-2-sargun@sargun.me
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 3da91a1..d044a32 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ void do_close_on_exec(struct files_struct *files)
spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
}
-static struct file *__fget(unsigned int fd, fmode_t mask, unsigned int refs)
+static struct file *__fget_files(struct files_struct *files, unsigned int fd,
+ fmode_t mask, unsigned int refs)
{
- struct files_struct *files = current->files;
struct file *file;
rcu_read_lock();
@@ -729,6 +729,12 @@ static struct file *__fget(unsigned int fd, fmode_t mask, unsigned int refs)
return file;
}
+static inline struct file *__fget(unsigned int fd, fmode_t mask,
+ unsigned int refs)
+{
+ return __fget_files(current->files, fd, mask, refs);
+}
+
struct file *fget_many(unsigned int fd, unsigned int refs)
{
return __fget(fd, FMODE_PATH, refs);
@@ -746,6 +752,18 @@ struct file *fget_raw(unsigned int fd)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fget_raw);
+struct file *fget_task(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int fd)
+{
+ struct file *file = NULL;
+
+ task_lock(task);
+ if (task->files)
+ file = __fget_files(task->files, fd, 0, 1);
+ task_unlock(task);
+
+ return file;
+}
+
/*
* Lightweight file lookup - no refcnt increment if fd table isn't shared.
*