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Christian Brauner ab8160583f file: always lock position for FMODE_ATOMIC_POS 
commit 20ea1e7d13 upstream.

The pidfd_getfd() system call allows a caller with ptrace_may_access()
abilities on another process to steal a file descriptor from this
process. This system call is used by debuggers, container runtimes,
system call supervisors, networking proxies etc. So while it is a
special interest system call it is used in common tools.

That ability ends up breaking our long-time optimization in fdget_pos(),
which "knew" that if we had exclusive access to the file descriptor
nobody else could access it, and we didn't need the lock for the file
position.

That check for file_count(file) was always fairly subtle - it depended
on __fdget() not incrementing the file count for single-threaded
processes and thus included that as part of the rule - but it did mean
that we didn't need to take the lock in all those traditional unix
process contexts.

So it's sad to see this go, and I'd love to have some way to re-instate
the optimization. At the same time, the lock obviously isn't ever
contended in the case we optimized, so all we were optimizing away is
the atomics and the cacheline dirtying. Let's see if anybody even
notices that the optimization is gone.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20230724-vfs-fdget_pos-v1-1-a4abfd7103f3@kernel.org/
Fixes: 8649c322f7 ("pid: Implement pidfd_getfd syscall")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2023-08-03 10:26:08 +02:00
arch x86/cpu: Enable STIBP on AMD if Automatic IBRS is enabled 2023-08-03 10:26:08 +02:00
block blk-mq: Fix stall due to recursive flush plug 2023-08-03 10:25:41 +02:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: jitter - correct health test during initialization 2023-07-19 16:36:19 +02:00
Documentation x86/cpu: Enable STIBP on AMD if Automatic IBRS is enabled 2023-08-03 10:26:08 +02:00
drivers hwmon: (pmbus_core) Fix Deadlock in pmbus_regulator_get_status 2023-08-03 10:26:07 +02:00
fs file: always lock position for FMODE_ATOMIC_POS 2023-08-03 10:26:08 +02:00
include block: Fix a source code comment in include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h 2023-08-03 10:25:57 +02:00
init kbuild: Fix CFI failures with GCOV 2023-07-19 16:36:23 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: don't audit the capability check in io_uring_create() 2023-08-03 10:25:42 +02:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel tracing: Fix warning in trace_buffered_event_disable() 2023-08-03 10:26:00 +02:00
lib maple_tree: fix 32 bit mas_next testing 2023-08-03 10:25:46 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/mlock: fix vma iterator conversion of apply_vma_lock_flags() 2023-07-27 08:56:32 +02:00
net tipc: stop tipc crypto on failure in tipc_node_create 2023-08-03 10:25:54 +02:00
rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
samples samples: ftrace: Save required argument registers in sample trampolines 2023-07-23 13:54:09 +02:00
scripts kbuild: rust: avoid creating temporary files 2023-07-27 08:57:06 +02:00
security security: keys: Modify mismatched function name 2023-07-27 08:56:59 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/relatek: Enable Mute LED on HP 250 G8 2023-08-03 10:26:06 +02:00
tools tools: ynl-gen: fix enum index in _decode_enum(..) 2023-08-03 10:25:53 +02:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Grab a reference to KVM for VM and vCPU stats file descriptors 2023-08-03 10:26:01 +02:00
.clang-format cxl for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:51:51 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore linux-kselftest-kunit-6.4-rc1 2023-04-24 12:31:32 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entries for Ben Dooks 2023-06-19 13:19:35 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: sctp: move Neil to CREDITS 2023-05-12 08:51:32 +01:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 6.4-rc8, including fixes from ipsec, bpf, 2023-06-22 17:59:51 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4.7 2023-07-27 08:57:07 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.