netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/8] net/socket: sys_accept4

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Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:50:24 -0700
From:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] net/socket: sys_accept4 - reverse allocation order

> Unfortunately this changes accept() behavior when/if ENFILE/EMFILE is
> reported.
>
> Some applications might depend on this behavior to eventually start a
> garbage collection of a cache using file descriptors to regular files.
>
> After your patch, a failed accept() call would silently 'consume' a
> session in the listener queue.

We could in the case of the first failure, attempt to grab a file
descriptor anyway, and if that fails return that failure instead, and
if it succeeds, release it and still return the first failure.

Would that be ok?

> Also, this patch series should be CCed to lkml and Al Viro, as it is a
> mix of fs & network changes.

Ok.
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