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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-01 15:07:57 +01:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
fs: fd tables have to be multiples of BITS_PER_LONG This has always been the rule: fdtables have several bitmaps in them, and as a result they have to be sized properly for bitmaps. We walk those bitmaps in chunks of 'unsigned long' in serveral cases, but even when we don't, we use the regular kernel bitops that are defined to work on arrays of 'unsigned long', not on some byte array. Now, the distinction between arrays of bytes and 'unsigned long' normally only really ends up being noticeable on big-endian systems, but Fedor Pchelkin and Alexey Khoroshilov reported that copy_fd_bitmaps() could be called with an argument that wasn't even a multiple of BITS_PER_BYTE. And then it fails to do the proper copy even on little-endian machines. The bug wasn't in copy_fd_bitmap(), but in sane_fdtable_size(), which didn't actually sanitize the fdtable size sufficiently, and never made sure it had the proper BITS_PER_LONG alignment. That's partly because the alignment historically came not from having to explicitly align things, but simply from previous fdtable sizes, and from count_open_files(), which counts the file descriptors by walking them one 'unsigned long' word at a time and thus naturally ends up doing sizing in the proper 'chunks of unsigned long'. But with the introduction of close_range(), we now have an external source of "this is how many files we want to have", and so sane_fdtable_size() needs to do a better job. This also adds that explicit alignment to alloc_fdtable(), although there it is mainly just for documentation at a source code level. The arithmetic we do there to pick a reasonable fdtable size already aligns the result sufficiently. In fact,clang notices that the added ALIGN() in that function doesn't actually do anything, and does not generate any extra code for it. It turns out that gcc ends up confusing itself by combining a previous constant-sized shift operation with the variable-sized shift operations in roundup_pow_of_two(). And probably due to that doesn't notice that the ALIGN() is a no-op. But that's a (tiny) gcc misfeature that doesn't matter. Having the explicit alignment makes sense, and would actually matter on a 128-bit architecture if we ever go there. This also adds big comments above both functions about how fdtable sizes have to have that BITS_PER_LONG alignment. Fixes: 60997c3d45d9 ("close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE") Reported-by: Fedor Pchelkin <aissur0002@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220326114009.1690-1-aissur0002@gmail.com/ Tested-and-acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-29 15:06:39 -07:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
fs: fd tables have to be multiples of BITS_PER_LONG This has always been the rule: fdtables have several bitmaps in them, and as a result they have to be sized properly for bitmaps. We walk those bitmaps in chunks of 'unsigned long' in serveral cases, but even when we don't, we use the regular kernel bitops that are defined to work on arrays of 'unsigned long', not on some byte array. Now, the distinction between arrays of bytes and 'unsigned long' normally only really ends up being noticeable on big-endian systems, but Fedor Pchelkin and Alexey Khoroshilov reported that copy_fd_bitmaps() could be called with an argument that wasn't even a multiple of BITS_PER_BYTE. And then it fails to do the proper copy even on little-endian machines. The bug wasn't in copy_fd_bitmap(), but in sane_fdtable_size(), which didn't actually sanitize the fdtable size sufficiently, and never made sure it had the proper BITS_PER_LONG alignment. That's partly because the alignment historically came not from having to explicitly align things, but simply from previous fdtable sizes, and from count_open_files(), which counts the file descriptors by walking them one 'unsigned long' word at a time and thus naturally ends up doing sizing in the proper 'chunks of unsigned long'. But with the introduction of close_range(), we now have an external source of "this is how many files we want to have", and so sane_fdtable_size() needs to do a better job. This also adds that explicit alignment to alloc_fdtable(), although there it is mainly just for documentation at a source code level. The arithmetic we do there to pick a reasonable fdtable size already aligns the result sufficiently. In fact,clang notices that the added ALIGN() in that function doesn't actually do anything, and does not generate any extra code for it. It turns out that gcc ends up confusing itself by combining a previous constant-sized shift operation with the variable-sized shift operations in roundup_pow_of_two(). And probably due to that doesn't notice that the ALIGN() is a no-op. But that's a (tiny) gcc misfeature that doesn't matter. Having the explicit alignment makes sense, and would actually matter on a 128-bit architecture if we ever go there. This also adds big comments above both functions about how fdtable sizes have to have that BITS_PER_LONG alignment. Fixes: 60997c3d45d9 ("close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE") Reported-by: Fedor Pchelkin <aissur0002@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220326114009.1690-1-aissur0002@gmail.com/ Tested-and-acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-29 15:06:39 -07:00
2016-01-14 15:18:21 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
[PATCH] fdtable: Implement new pagesize-based fdtable allocator This patch provides an improved fdtable allocation scheme, useful for expanding fdtable file descriptor entries. The main focus is on the fdarray, as its memory usage grows 128 times faster than that of an fdset. The allocation algorithm sizes the fdarray in such a way that its memory usage increases in easy page-sized chunks. The overall algorithm expands the allowed size in powers of two, in order to amortize the cost of invoking vmalloc() for larger allocation sizes. Namely, the following sizes for the fdarray are considered, and the smallest that accommodates the requested fd count is chosen: pagesize / 4 pagesize / 2 pagesize <- memory allocator switch point pagesize * 2 pagesize * 4 ...etc... Unlike the current implementation, this allocation scheme does not require a loop to compute the optimal fdarray size, and can be done in efficient straightline code. Furthermore, since the fdarray overflows the pagesize boundary long before any of the fdsets do, it makes sense to optimize run-time by allocating both fdsets in a single swoop. Even together, they will still be, by far, smaller than the fdarray. The fdtable->open_fds is now used as the anchor for the fdset memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 02:21:22 -08:00
fs: fd tables have to be multiples of BITS_PER_LONG This has always been the rule: fdtables have several bitmaps in them, and as a result they have to be sized properly for bitmaps. We walk those bitmaps in chunks of 'unsigned long' in serveral cases, but even when we don't, we use the regular kernel bitops that are defined to work on arrays of 'unsigned long', not on some byte array. Now, the distinction between arrays of bytes and 'unsigned long' normally only really ends up being noticeable on big-endian systems, but Fedor Pchelkin and Alexey Khoroshilov reported that copy_fd_bitmaps() could be called with an argument that wasn't even a multiple of BITS_PER_BYTE. And then it fails to do the proper copy even on little-endian machines. The bug wasn't in copy_fd_bitmap(), but in sane_fdtable_size(), which didn't actually sanitize the fdtable size sufficiently, and never made sure it had the proper BITS_PER_LONG alignment. That's partly because the alignment historically came not from having to explicitly align things, but simply from previous fdtable sizes, and from count_open_files(), which counts the file descriptors by walking them one 'unsigned long' word at a time and thus naturally ends up doing sizing in the proper 'chunks of unsigned long'. But with the introduction of close_range(), we now have an external source of "this is how many files we want to have", and so sane_fdtable_size() needs to do a better job. This also adds that explicit alignment to alloc_fdtable(), although there it is mainly just for documentation at a source code level. The arithmetic we do there to pick a reasonable fdtable size already aligns the result sufficiently. In fact,clang notices that the added ALIGN() in that function doesn't actually do anything, and does not generate any extra code for it. It turns out that gcc ends up confusing itself by combining a previous constant-sized shift operation with the variable-sized shift operations in roundup_pow_of_two(). And probably due to that doesn't notice that the ALIGN() is a no-op. But that's a (tiny) gcc misfeature that doesn't matter. Having the explicit alignment makes sense, and would actually matter on a 128-bit architecture if we ever go there. This also adds big comments above both functions about how fdtable sizes have to have that BITS_PER_LONG alignment. Fixes: 60997c3d45d9 ("close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE") Reported-by: Fedor Pchelkin <aissur0002@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220326114009.1690-1-aissur0002@gmail.com/ Tested-and-acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-29 15:06:39 -07:00
fs/file.c: initialize init_files.resize_wait (Taken from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200647) 'get_unused_fd_flags' in kthread cause kernel crash. It works fine on 4.1, but causes crash after get 64 fds. It also cause crash on ubuntu1404/1604/1804, centos7.5, and the crash messages are almost the same. The crash message on centos7.5 shows below: start fd 61 start fd 62 start fd 63 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: test(OE) xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 tun bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter devlink sunrpc kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd sg ppdev pcspkr virtio_balloon parport_pc parport i2c_piix4 joydev ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ata_generic pata_acpi virtio_scsi virtio_console virtio_net cirrus drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel drm ata_piix serio_raw libata virtio_pci virtio_ring i2c_core virtio floppy dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 2 PID: 1820 Comm: test_fd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE ------------ 3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 task: ffff8e92b9431fa0 ti: ffff8e94247a0000 task.ti: ffff8e94247a0000 RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90 RSP: 0018:ffff8e94247a2d18 EFLAGS: 00010086 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9d09daa0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffffff9d09daa0 RBP: ffff8e94247a2d50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8e92b95dfda8 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff9d09daa8 R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e9434e80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000017c686000 CR4: 00000000000207e0 Call Trace: __wake_up+0x39/0x50 expand_files+0x131/0x250 __alloc_fd+0x47/0x170 get_unused_fd_flags+0x30/0x40 test_fd+0x12a/0x1c0 [test] kthread+0xd1/0xe0 ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x21/0x21 Code: 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 f7 41 56 41 89 ce 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 49 83 c4 08 53 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 47 08 89 55 cc 4c 89 45 d0 <48> 8b 08 49 39 c4 48 8d 78 e8 4c 8d 69 e8 75 08 eb 3b 4c 89 ef RIP __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90 RSP <ffff8e94247a2d18> CR2: 0000000000000000 This issue exists since CentOS 7.5 3.10.0-862 and CentOS 7.4 (3.10.0-693.21.1 ) is ok. Root cause: the item 'resize_wait' is not initialized before being used. Reported-by: Richard Zhang <zhang.zijian@h3c.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 15:41:56 -08:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
open: add close_range() This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-24 11:30:34 +02:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it Jann Horn points out that there is another possible race wrt Unix domain socket garbage collection, somewhat reminiscent of the one fixed in commit cbcf01128d0a ("af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK"). See the extended comment about the garbage collection requirements added to unix_peek_fds() by that commit for details. The race comes from how we can locklessly look up a file descriptor just as it is in the process of being closed, and with the right artificial timing (Jann added a few strategic 'mdelay(500)' calls to do that), the Unix domain socket garbage collector could see the reference count decrement of the close() happen before fget() took its reference to the file and the file was attached onto a new file descriptor. This is all (intentionally) correct on the 'struct file *' side, with RCU lookups and lockless reference counting very much part of the design. Getting that reference count out of order isn't a problem per se. But the garbage collector can get confused by seeing this situation of having seen a file not having any remaining external references and then seeing it being attached to an fd. In commit cbcf01128d0a ("af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK") the fix was to serialize the file descriptor install with the garbage collector by taking and releasing the unix_gc_lock. That's not really an option here, but since this all happens when we are in the process of looking up a file descriptor, we can instead simply just re-check that the file hasn't been closed in the meantime, and just re-do the lookup if we raced with a concurrent close() of the same file descriptor. Reported-and-tested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-01 10:06:14 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
fget: clarify and improve __fget_files() implementation Commit 054aa8d439b9 ("fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it") fixed a race with getting a reference to a file just as it was being closed. It was a fairly minimal patch, and I didn't think re-checking the file pointer lookup would be a measurable overhead, since it was all right there and cached. But I was wrong, as pointed out by the kernel test robot. The 'poll2' case of the will-it-scale.per_thread_ops benchmark regressed quite noticeably. Admittedly it seems to be a very artificial test: doing "poll()" system calls on regular files in a very tight loop in multiple threads. That means that basically all the time is spent just looking up file descriptors without ever doing anything useful with them (not that doing 'poll()' on a regular file is useful to begin with). And as a result it shows the extra "re-check fd" cost as a sore thumb. Happily, the regression is fixable by just writing the code to loook up the fd to be better and clearer. There's still a cost to verify the file pointer, but now it's basically in the noise even for that benchmark that does nothing else - and the code is more understandable and has better comments too. [ Side note: this patch is also a classic case of one that looks very messy with the default greedy Myers diff - it's much more legible with either the patience of histogram diff algorithm ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211210053743.GA36420@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211213083154.GA20853@linux.intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Tested-by: Carel Si <beibei.si@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-12-10 14:00:15 -08:00
Revert "vfs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()" This reverts commit 0be0ee71816b2b6725e2b4f32ad6726c9d729777. I was hoping it would be benign to switch over entirely to FMODE_STREAM, and we'd have just a couple of small fixups we'd need, but it looks like we're not quite there yet. While it worked fine on both my desktop and laptop, they are fairly similar in other respects, and run mostly the same loads. Kenneth Crudup reports that it seems to break both his vmware installation and the KDE upower service. In both cases apparently leading to timeouts due to waitinmg for the f_pos lock. There are a number of character devices in particular that definitely want stream-like behavior, but that currently don't get marked as streams, and as a result get the exclusion between concurrent read()/write() on the same file descriptor. Which doesn't work well for them. The most obvious example if this is /dev/console and /dev/tty, which use console_fops and tty_fops respectively (and ptmx_fops for the pty master side). It may be that it's just this that causes problems, but we clearly weren't ready yet. Because there's a number of other likely common cases that don't have llseek implementations and would seem to act as stream devices: /dev/fuse (fuse_dev_operations) /dev/mcelog (mce_chrdev_ops) /dev/mei0 (mei_fops) /dev/net/tun (tun_fops) /dev/nvme0 (nvme_dev_fops) /dev/tpm0 (tpm_fops) /proc/self/ns/mnt (ns_file_operations) /dev/snd/pcm* (snd_pcm_f_ops[]) and while some of these could be trivially automatically detected by the vfs layer when the character device is opened by just noticing that they have no read or write operations either, it often isn't that obvious. Some character devices most definitely do use the file position, even if they don't allow seeking: the firmware update code, for example, uses simple_read_from_buffer() that does use f_pos, but doesn't allow seeking back and forth. We'll revisit this when there's a better way to detect the problem and fix it (possibly with a coccinelle script to do more of the FMODE_STREAM annotations). Reported-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@panix.com> Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-26 11:34:06 -08:00