Re: [PATCH 1/4] files: fix dupfd by fdt reload

[Dipankar Sarma]

locate_fd() may expand fdtable, so the fdtable pointer must be
reloaded after locate_fd(). Fixes bugme #4770.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---


 fs/fcntl.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/fcntl.c~fix-dupfd-reacquire-fdt fs/fcntl.c
--- linux-2.6.12-mm1-fix/fs/fcntl.c~fix-dupfd-reacquire-fdt	2005-06-25 14:56:58.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.12-mm1-fix-dipankar/fs/fcntl.c	2005-06-25 14:58:26.000000000 +0530
@@ -118,9 +118,10 @@ static int dupfd(struct file *file, unsi
 	int fd;
 
 	spin_lock(&files->file_lock);
-	fdt = files_fdtable(files);
 	fd = locate_fd(files, file, start);
 	if (fd >= 0) {
+		/* locate_fd() may have expanded fdtable, load the ptr */
+		fdt = files_fdtable(files);
 		FD_SET(fd, fdt->open_fds);
 		FD_CLR(fd, fdt->close_on_exec);
 		spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);

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