linux-kernel - Re: misuse of fget_raw() in perf_event

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Date:   Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:42:00 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, tj@...nel.org
Subject: Re: misuse of fget_raw() in perf_event_get()

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 10:02:42PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	What's the point of using fget_raw(), if you do
> _not_ accept O_PATH descriptors?  That should be fget()...

I think you're talking about commit e03e7ee34fdd ("perf/bpf: Convert perf_event_array to use struct file")
I don't really remember why we went with this instead of fget().
There was a bunch of back and forth back then with Peter.
Now it looks like that it can be fget just fine.
I think cgroup_get_from_fd() should do the same too?