When discussing[1] exec and posix file locks it was realized that none
of the callers of get_files_struct fundamentally needed to call
get_files_struct, and that by switching them to helper functions
instead it will both simplify their code and remove unnecessary
increments of files_struct.count. Those unnecessary increments can
result in exec unnecessarily unsharing files_struct which breaking
posix locks, and it can result in fget_light having to fallback to
fget reducing system performance.
Using task_lookup_next_fd_rcu simplifies proc_readfd_common, by moving
the checking for the maximum file descritor into the generic code, and
by remvoing the need for capturing and releasing a reference on
files_struct.
As task_lookup_fd_rcu may update the fd ctx->pos has been changed
to be the fd +2 after task_lookup_fd_rcu returns.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180915160423.GA31461@redhat.com
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Andy Lavr <andy.lavr@gmail.com>
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-10-ebiederm@xmission.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-15-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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