netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/8] net/socket: sys_accept4

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Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:11:06 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:	Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] net/socket: sys_accept4 - reverse allocation order

On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 14:19 -0700, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
> ---

Unfortunately this changes accept() behavior when/if ENFILE/EMFILE is
reported.

Some applications might depend on this behavior to eventually start a
garbage collection of a cache using file descriptors to regular files.

After your patch, a failed accept() call would silently 'consume' a
session in the listener queue.

Also, this patch series should be CCed to lkml and Al Viro, as it is a
mix of fs & network changes.

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