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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-05-12 17:08:03 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-05-14 18:49:01 -0400
commit6319194ec57b0452dcda4589d24c4e7db299c5bf (patch)
treed65162000bc0031c8e5946aa7135c9dad7496d6c /include
parent81132a39c152ca09832b9e4cb748129cee5f55ec (diff)
downloadlinux-6319194ec57b0452dcda4589d24c4e7db299c5bf.tar.gz
Unify the primitives for file descriptor closing
Currently we have 3 primitives for removing an opened file from descriptor
table - pick_file(), __close_fd_get_file() and close_fd_get_file().  Their
calling conventions are rather odd and there's a code duplication for no
good reason.  They can be unified -

1) have __range_close() cap max_fd in the very beginning; that way
we don't need separate way for pick_file() to report being past the end
of descriptor table.

2) make {__,}close_fd_get_file() return file (or NULL) directly, rather
than returning it via struct file ** argument.  Don't bother with
(bogus) return value - nobody wants that -ENOENT.

3) make pick_file() return NULL on unopened descriptor - the only caller
that used to care about the distinction between descriptor past the end
of descriptor table and finding NULL in descriptor table doesn't give
a damn after (1).

4) lift ->files_lock out of pick_file()

That actually simplifies the callers, as well as the primitives themselves.
Code duplication is also gone...

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fdtable.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fdtable.h b/include/linux/fdtable.h
index d0e78174874a..e066816f3519 100644
--- a/include/linux/fdtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/fdtable.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ int iterate_fd(struct files_struct *, unsigned,
 
 extern int close_fd(unsigned int fd);
 extern int __close_range(unsigned int fd, unsigned int max_fd, unsigned int flags);
-extern int close_fd_get_file(unsigned int fd, struct file **res);
+extern struct file *close_fd_get_file(unsigned int fd);
 extern int unshare_fd(unsigned long unshare_flags, unsigned int max_fds,
 		      struct files_struct **new_fdp);