[PATCH v2 12/24] proc/fd: In tid_fd_mode use task_lookup_fd_rcu

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Nov 20 2020 - 18:20:40 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-7-ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/fd.c | 7 +------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/fd.c b/fs/proc/fd.c
index 3dec44d7c5c5..c1a984f3c4df 100644
--- a/fs/proc/fd.c
+++ b/fs/proc/fd.c
@@ -83,18 +83,13 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_fdinfo_file_operations = {

static bool tid_fd_mode(struct task_struct *task, unsigned fd, fmode_t *mode)
{
- struct files_struct *files = get_files_struct(task);
struct file *file;

- if (!files)
- return false;
-
rcu_read_lock();
- file = files_lookup_fd_rcu(files, fd);
+ file = task_lookup_fd_rcu(task, fd);
if (file)
*mode = file->f_mode;
rcu_read_unlock();
- put_files_struct(files);
return !!file;
}

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