From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:43140 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950AbeFDRQd (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2018 13:16:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 10:16:30 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Al Viro Cc: David Howells , Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] open_tree(2) (was Re: [PATCH 30/32] vfs: Allow cloning of a mount tree with open(O_PATH|O_CLONE_MOUNT) [ver #8]) Message-ID: <20180604171630.GA29059@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20180601063928.GS30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <152720672288.9073.9868393448836301272.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <152720691829.9073.10564431140980997005.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20180601062654.GA32397@infradead.org> <7067.1527841663@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20180602030913.GU30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20180602034255.GV30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <21804.1527954321@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20180602174957.GX30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20180603005532.GZ30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180603005532.GZ30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 01:55:37AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(open_tree, int, dfd, const char *, filename, unsigned, flags) > +{ > + struct file *file; > + struct path path; > + int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT | LOOKUP_FOLLOW; > + bool detached = flags & OPEN_TREE_CLONE; > + int error; > + int fd; > + > + BUILD_BUG_ON(OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC); Why do we need OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC? Wouldn't we be better off just making the fd returned by open_tree implicitly close-on-exec? I can think of no good reason for these file descriptors to be inherited across exec() and if someone comes up with such a reason, fcntl(F_SETFD) is not an expensive call to make.