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When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary increments of files_struct.count. Those unnecessary increments can result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to fget reducing system performance. Using task_lookup_next_fd_rcu simplifies task_file_seq_get_next, by moving the checking for the maximum file descritor into the generic code, and by remvoing the need for capturing and releasing a reference on files_struct. As the reference count of files_struct no longer needs to be maintained bpf_iter_seq_task_file_info can have it's files member removed and task_file_seq_get_next no longer needs it's fstruct argument. The curr_fd local variable does need to become unsigned to be used with fnext_task. As curr_fd is assigned from and assigned a u32 making curr_fd an unsigned int won't cause problems and might prevent them. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-11-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-16-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.