linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add cloexec information to fdinfo

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:54:41 +0900
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	drepper@...adia.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rientjes@...gle.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, wilsons@...rt.ca,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add cloexec information to fdinfo

(2011/06/10 12:55), drepper@...adia.org wrote:
> There is one piece of information about a file descriptor which is
> currently not visible from the outside: the close-on-exec flag.  The
> /proc/PID/fdinfo/* files have the mode information but this is
> missing.  Is the following patch acceptable?
> 
> What I don't know is whether the RCU locking is needed given that
> real locks are taken.  Someone with more knowledge could just
> remove those two lines.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>
> 
>  base.c |   17 ++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index 14def99..bda3651 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -1924,12 +1924,23 @@ static int proc_fd_info(struct inode *inode, struct path *path, char *info)
>  				*path = file->f_path;
>  				path_get(&file->f_path);
>  			}
> -			if (info)
> +			if (info) {
> +				int cloexec;
> +				struct fdtable *fdt;
> +
> +				rcu_read_lock();
> +				fdt = files_fdtable(files);
> +				cloexec = FD_ISSET(fd, fdt->close_on_exec);
> +				rcu_read_unlock();
> +
>  				snprintf(info, PROC_FDINFO_MAX,
>  					 "pos:\t%lli\n"
> -					 "flags:\t0%o\n",
> +					 "flags:\t0%o\n"
> +					 "cloexec: %d\n",
>  					 (long long) file->f_pos,
> -					 file->f_flags);
> +					 file->f_flags,
> +					 cloexec);
> +			}
>  			spin_unlock(&files->file_lock);
>  			put_files_struct(files);
>  			return 0;

I think this is correct and useful. However I don't know fdtable life cycle detail.
cc to linux-fsdevel.

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