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[ Upstream commit cc4a3f885e8f2bc3c86a265972e94fef32d68f67 ] Currently there is no way to differentiate the file with alive owner from the file with dead owner but pid of the owner reused. That's why CRIU can't actually know if it needs to restore file owner or not, because if it restores owner but actual owner was dead, this can introduce unexpected signals to the "false"-owner (which reused the pid). Let's change the api, so that F_GETOWN(EX) returns 0 in case actual owner is dead already. This comports with the POSIX spec, which states that a PID of 0 indicates that no signal will be sent. Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Stable-dep-of: f671a691e299 ("fcntl: fix potential deadlocks for &fown_struct.lock") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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.