linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 03/24] exec: Remove reset_files

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20201120231441.29911-3-ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:14:20 -0600
From:   "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, criu@...nvz.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Daniel P . Berrangé <berrange@...hat.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 03/24] exec: Remove reset_files_struct

Now that exec no longer needs to restore the previous value of current->files
on error there are no more callers of reset_files_struct so remove it.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 fs/file.c               | 12 ------------
 include/linux/fdtable.h |  1 -
 2 files changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index 4559b5fec3bd..beae7c55c84c 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -436,18 +436,6 @@ void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files)
 	}
 }
 
-void reset_files_struct(struct files_struct *files)
-{
-	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
-	struct files_struct *old;
-
-	old = tsk->files;
-	task_lock(tsk);
-	tsk->files = files;
-	task_unlock(tsk);
-	put_files_struct(old);
-}
-
 void exit_files(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct files_struct * files = tsk->files;
diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index f46a084b60b2..7cc9885044d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ struct task_struct;
 
 struct files_struct *get_files_struct(struct task_struct *);
 void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *fs);
-void reset_files_struct(struct files_struct *);
 int unshare_files(void);
 struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *, unsigned, int *) __latent_entropy;
 void do_close_on_exec(struct files_struct *);
-- 
2.25.0