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Message-Id: <2464316e40e4784529f3f80dbc1f4830cdb92ade.1383121137.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:47:47 +0100
From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@...eya.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@...eya.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 7/7] file: remove get_unused_fd() macro
Macro get_unused_fd() allocates a file descriptor without O_CLOEXEC flag.
This can be seen as an unsafe default: in most case O_CLOEXEC
must be used to not leak file descriptor across exec().
Using O_CLOEXEC by default allows userspace to choose, without race,
if the file descriptor is going to be inherited across exec(),
by calling fcntl() when needed.
This patch removes get_unused_fd() so that newer kernel code use
anon_inode_getfd() or get_unused_fd_flags() with flags provided
by userspace. If flags cannot be given by userspace, O_CLOEXEC must be
used by default.
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@...eya.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1383121137.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
---
include/linux/file.h | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/file.h b/include/linux/file.h
index cbacf4f..8666002 100644
--- a/include/linux/file.h
+++ b/include/linux/file.h
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag);
extern bool get_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd);
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags);
-#define get_unused_fd() get_unused_fd_flags(0)
extern void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd);
extern void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file);
--
1.8.3.1
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