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[PATCH] dup_fd() part 4 - race fix
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Parent _can_ be a clone task, contrary to the comment.  Moreover,
more files could be opened while we allocate a copy, in which case
we end up copying only part into new descriptor table.  Since what
we get _is_ affected by all changes in the old range, we can get
rather weird effects - e.g.
	dup2(0, 1024); close(0);
in parallel with fork() resulting in child that sees the effect of
close(), but not that of dup2() done just before that close().

What we need is to recalculate the open_count after having reacquired
->file_lock and if external fdtable we'd just allocated is too small for
it, free the sucker and redo allocation.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Al Viro committed May 16, 2008
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions fs/file.c
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Expand Up @@ -308,11 +308,16 @@ struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, int *errorp)

/*
* Check whether we need to allocate a larger fd array and fd set.
* Note: we're not a clone task, so the open count won't change.
*/
if (open_files > new_fdt->max_fds) {
while (unlikely(open_files > new_fdt->max_fds)) {
spin_unlock(&oldf->file_lock);

if (new_fdt != &newf->fdtab) {
free_fdarr(new_fdt);
free_fdset(new_fdt);
kfree(new_fdt);
}

new_fdt = alloc_fdtable(open_files - 1);
if (!new_fdt) {
*errorp = -ENOMEM;
Expand All @@ -335,6 +340,7 @@ struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, int *errorp)
*/
spin_lock(&oldf->file_lock);
old_fdt = files_fdtable(oldf);
open_files = count_open_files(old_fdt);
}

old_fds = old_fdt->fd;
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