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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-11-21 00:14:29 +0100
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-12-10 19:40:14 +0100
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proc/fd: In tid_fd_mode use task_lookup_fd_rcu
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. Instead of manually coding finding the files struct for a task and then calling files_lookup_fd_rcu, use the helper task_lookup_fd_rcu that combines those to steps. Making the code simpler and removing the need to get a reference on a files_struct. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-7-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-12-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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