linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH v4 2/3] fs: openat2: Extend open

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Date:   Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:18:05 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Aleksa Sarai' <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
CC:     "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "io-uring@...r.kernel.org" <io-uring@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v4 2/3] fs: openat2: Extend open_how to allow
 userspace-selected fds

From: Aleksa Sarai
> Sent: 19 April 2020 11:44
> 
> On 2020-04-13, Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org> wrote:
> > Inspired by the X protocol's handling of XIDs, allow userspace to select
> > the file descriptor opened by openat2, so that it can use the resulting
> > file descriptor in subsequent system calls without waiting for the
> > response to openat2.
> >
> > In io_uring, this allows sequences like openat2/read/close without
> > waiting for the openat2 to complete. Multiple such sequences can
> > overlap, as long as each uses a distinct file descriptor.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this explanation -- how can you trigger a
> syscall with an fd that hasn't yet been registered (unless you're just
> hoping the race goes in your favour)?

I suspect (there are no comments in the io_uring code to say what it does)
that the io_uring code uses a thread of the user process to sequentially
execute IO requests that the main application has added to a queue.

So it might make sense to queue up open/read/close.
But that ought to be within the io_uring code.

	David

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