Re: [PATCH 05/39] vfs: optionally don't account file in nr_files

[Al Viro]

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:43:05PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -732,8 +732,8 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
>  	static const struct file_operations empty_fops = {};
>  	int error;
>  
> -	f->f_mode = OPEN_FMODE(f->f_flags) | FMODE_LSEEK |
> -				FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE;
> +	f->f_mode = (f->f_mode & FMODE_NOACCOUNT) | OPEN_FMODE(f->f_flags) |
> +		FMODE_LSEEK | FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE;

Why bother with this complexity?  I mean, why not simply
	f->f_mode |= OPEN_FMODE(f->f_flags) | FMODE_LSEEK |
				FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE;

and be done with that...

> @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
>  	f->f_wb_err = filemap_sample_wb_err(f->f_mapping);
>  
>  	if (unlikely(f->f_flags & O_PATH)) {
> -		f->f_mode = FMODE_PATH;
> +		f->f_mode = (f->f_mode & FMODE_NOACCOUNT) | FMODE_PATH;

That makes no sense at all.  What would ever pass O_PATH opens
from "noaccount" call site?