linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv8 1/6] fanotify: enable close-on-exec on events' fd when requested in fanotify

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Date:	Sat, 27 Sep 2014 09:26:42 +0200
From:	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@...eya.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv8 1/6] fanotify: enable close-on-exec on events' fd when
 requested in fanotify_init()

Hello Andrew,

please, add the patch described in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/24/967
to the MM tree.

I have tested kernel 3.17.0-rc6 with and without the patch and it fixes 
the described error.
As the patch is valid independent of the rest of the patch set, there is 
no reason to wait for the rest to be merged.

You may add
Reviewed by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt




On 26.09.2014 10:58, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le jeudi 25 septembre 2014 à 22:57 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt a écrit :
>> On 24.09.2014 15:11, Yann Droneaud wrote:
>>> According to commit 80af258867648 ('fanotify: groups can specify
>>> their f_flags for new fd'), file descriptors created as part of
>>> file access notification events inherit flags from the
>>> event_f_flags argument passed to syscall fanotify_init(2).
>>>
>>> So while it is legal for userspace to call fanotify_init() with
>>> O_CLOEXEC as part of its second argument, O_CLOEXEC is currently
>>> silently ignored.
>>>
>>> Indeed event_f_flags are only given to dentry_open(), which only
>>> seems to care about O_ACCMODE and O_PATH in do_dentry_open(),
>>> O_DIRECT in open_check_o_direct() and O_LARGEFILE in
>>> generic_file_open().
>>
>> I tested on kernel 3.17.0-rc5. I passed O_CLOEXEC in event_f_flags.
>> When I called fcnt(event_metadata->fd, F_GETFD) it did not return
>> FD_CLOEXEC. So I can confirm your observation that O_CLOEXEC is not
>> working as expected.
>>
>> I found this definition
>> #define get_unused_fd() get_unused_fd_flags(0)
>>
>> So essentially when get_unused_fd() is called for a fanotify event
>> O_CLOEXEC is ignored.
>>
>> This is what your patch fixes.
>>

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