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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/23] init: open code setting up stdin/stdout/stderr
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:54:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200727155453.GE794331@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200727064828.GA2317@lst.de>

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:48:28AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:03:22AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:46:25AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:05:34AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:04:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > > Don't rely on the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) for ksys_open to work, but
> > > > > instead open a struct file for /dev/console and then install it as FD
> > > > > 0/1/2 manually.
> > > > 
> > > > I really hate that one.  Every time we exposed the internal details to
> > > > the fucking early init code, we paid for that afterwards.  And this
> > > > goes over the top wrt the level of details being exposed.
> > > > 
> > > > _IF_ you want to keep that thing, move it to fs/file.c, with dire comment
> > > > re that being very special shite for init and likely cause of subsequent
> > > > trouble whenever anything gets changed, a gnat farts somewhere, etc.
> > > 
> > > Err, while I'm all for keeping internals internal, fd_install and
> > > get_unused_fd_flags are exported routines with tons of users of this
> > > pattern all over.
> > 
> > get_file_rcu_many()?  All over the place?  Besides, that's _not_ the normal
> > pattern for get_unused_fd() - there's a very special reason we don't expect
> > an error from it here.
> 
> Oh well.  I can add an init_dup2, but that should probably go after
> the series adding fs/for-init.c or fs/init.c.  I'll skip it for the
> current set of fixups and will send it once we have a stable branch for
> that.

OK.  The really serious ones are around f_pos uses and d_genocide() one.
FWIW, cleanup_rootfs() should probably be removed - it looks rather
pointless.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-14 19:04 decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 01/23] fs: add a vfs_fchown helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 02/23] fs: add a vfs_fchmod helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 03/23] init: remove the bstat helper Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:14   ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 04/23] md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/ Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 05/23] md: replace the RAID_AUTORUN ioctl with a direct function call Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:33   ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 06/23] md: remove the autoscan partition re-read Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:34   ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 07/23] md: remove the kernel version of md_u.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 08/23] md: simplify md_setup_drive Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:37   ` NeilBrown
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 09/23] md: rewrite md_setup_drive to avoid ioctls Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-15 23:50   ` NeilBrown
2020-07-16 13:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 10/23] initrd: remove support for multiple floppies Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 11/23] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 12/23] initrd: switch initrd loading to struct file based APIs Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  1:50   ` Al Viro
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 13/23] initrd: mark init_linuxrc as __init Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 14/23] initrd: mark initrd support as deprecated Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 15/23] initramfs: remove the populate_initrd_image and clean_rootfs stubs Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 16/23] initramfs: simplify clean_rootfs Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <CGME20200717205549eucas1p13fca9a8496836faa71df515524743648@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-07-17 20:55     ` Marek Szyprowski
2020-07-18 10:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23  9:22         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-23 14:25           ` Lukasz Stelmach
2020-07-23 14:27             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  2:41               ` Al Viro
2020-07-27  2:44                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 17/23] initramfs: switch initramfs unpacking to struct file based APIs Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-15  6:27     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  2:55   ` Al Viro
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 18/23] init: open code setting up stdin/stdout/stderr Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  3:05   ` Al Viro
2020-07-27  5:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  6:03       ` Al Viro
2020-07-27  6:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 15:54           ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-07-27 15:58             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  6:20     ` hpa
2020-07-27  6:24       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27  6:36         ` hpa
2020-07-27  6:49           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 19/23] fs: remove ksys_getdents64 Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 20/23] fs: remove ksys_open Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 21/23] fs: remove ksys_dup Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 22/23] fs: remove ksys_fchmod Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:04 ` [PATCH 23/23] fs: remove ksys_ioctl Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-14 19:34 ` decruft the early init / initrd / initramfs code v2 Linus Torvalds
2020-07-15  6:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-16 15:57     ` Guoqing Jiang
2020-07-16 16:00       ` Christoph Hellwig

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