linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/24] exec: Move unshare_files and guarantee files

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Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:05:47 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/24] exec: Move unshare_files and guarantee
 files_struct.count is correct

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:11 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> This set of changes cleanups of the code in exec so hopefully this code
> will not regress again.  Then it adds helpers and fixes the users of
> files_struct so the reference count is only incremented if COPY_FILES is
> passed to clone (or if io_uring takes a reference).  Then it removes
> helpers (get_files_struct, __install_fd, __alloc_fd, __close_fd) that
> are no longer needed and if used would encourage code that increments
> the count of files_struct somewhere besides in clone when COPY_FILES is
> passed.

I'm not seeing anything that triggered me going "that looks dodgy". It
all looks like nice cleanups.

But that's just from reading the patches (and in some cases going and
looking at the context), so I didn't actually _test_ any of it. It all
looks sane to me, though, and the fact that it removes a fair number
of lines of code is always a good sign.

It would be good for people to review and test (Al? Oleg? others?),
but my gut feel is "this is good".

             Linus