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include/linux/file.h: remove get_unused_fd() macro 

Macro get_unused_fd() is used to allocate a file descriptor with default
flags.  Those default flags (0) don't enable close-on-exec.

This can be seen as an unsafe default: in most case close-on-exec should
be enabled to not leak file descriptor across exec().

It would be better to have a "safer" default set of flags, eg.  O_CLOEXEC
must be used to enable close-on-exec.

Instead this patch removes get_unused_fd() so that out of tree modules
won't be affect by a runtime behavor change which might introduce other
kind of bugs: it's better to catch the change at build time, making it
easier to fix.

Removing the macro will also promote use of get_unused_fd_flags() (or
anon_inode_getfd()) with flags provided by userspace.  Or, if flags cannot
be given by userspace, with flags set to O_CLOEXEC by default.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Yann Droneaud 2014-12-10 15:45:47 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8d10a03582
commit f938612dd9
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@ -66,7 +66,6 @@ extern void set_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd, int flag);
extern bool get_close_on_exec(unsigned int fd);
extern void put_filp(struct file *);
extern int get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags);
#define get_unused_fd() get_unused_fd_flags(0)
extern void put_unused_fd(unsigned int fd);
extern void fd_install(unsigned int fd, struct file *file);