Re: [PATCH] fcntl: make F_GETOWN(EX) return 0 on dead owner task

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 03:41:56PM +0300, Pavel Tikhomirov wrote:
> Currently there is no way to differentiate the file with alive owner
> from the file with dead owner but pid of the owner reused. That's why
> CRIU can't actually know if it needs to restore file owner or not,
> because if it restores owner but actual owner was dead, this can
> introduce unexpected signals to the "false"-owner (which reused the
> pid).
> 
> Let's change the api, so that F_GETOWN(EX) returns 0 in case actual
> owner is dead already.
> 
> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I can't imagine a scenario where we could break some backward
compatibility with this change, so

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>