Re: [PATCH] epoll: try to be a _bit_ better about file lifetimes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 4 May 2024 at 08:40, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And maybe it's even *only* dma-buf that does that fget() in its
> ->poll() function. Even *then* it's not a dma-buf.c bug.

They all do in the sense that they do

  poll_wait
    -> __pollwait
     -> get_file (*boom*)

but the boom is very small because the poll_wait() will be undone by
poll_freewait(), and normally poll/select has held the file count
elevated.

Except for epoll. Which leaves those pollwait entries around until
it's done - but again will be held up on the ep->mtx before it does
so.

So everybody does some f_count games, but possibly dma-buf is the only
one that ends up expecting to hold on to the f_count for longer
periods.

             Linus