linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] vfs: don't bother clearing close_on

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Message-ID: <1446600672.4184.1.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2015 17:31:12 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] vfs: don't bother clearing close_on_exec bit for unused
 fds

On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 10:41 +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ void do_close_on_exec(struct files_struct *files)
>  		fdt = files_fdtable(files);
>  		if (fd >= fdt->max_fds)
>  			break;
> -		set = fdt->close_on_exec[i];
> +		set = fdt->close_on_exec[i] & fdt->open_fds[i];
>  		if (!set)
>  			continue;
>  		fdt->close_on_exec[i] = 0;

If you don't bother, why leaving this final fdt->close_on_exec[i] = 0 ?



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