netdev - Re: [PATCH][CFT][experimental] net/socket.c: use straight fdget/fdput (resend)

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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 08:23:27 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][CFT][experimental] net/socket.c: use straight fdget/fdput (resend)

On Sun, 26 May 2024 at 16:16, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> FDPUT_FPUT is *not* a property of file; it's about the original
> reference to file not being guaranteed to stay pinned for the lifetime
> of struct fd in question...

Yup. I forgot the rules and thought we set FDPUT_PUT for cases where
we had exclusive access to 'struct file *', but it's for cases where
we have exclusive access to the 'int fd'.

               Linus