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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Nate Karstens <nate.karstens@garmin.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 08:30:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89iKr_9MyRpdB4pcHm08ccH_M42etDnrOzpVKUYfhSKvxQw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515152321.9280-1-nate.karstens@garmin.com>

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:23 AM Nate Karstens <nate.karstens@garmin.com> wrote:
>
>
> Series of 4 patches to implement close-on-fork. Tests have been
> published to https://github.com/nkarstens/ltp/tree/close-on-fork
> and cover close-on-fork functionality in the following syscalls:
>
>  * accept(4)
>  * dup3(2)
>  * fcntl(2)
>  * open(2)
>  * socket(2)
>  * socketpair(2)
>  * unshare(2)
>
> Addresses underlying issue in that there is no way to prevent
> a fork() from duplicating a file descriptor. The existing
> close-on-exec flag partially-addresses this by allowing the
> parent process to mark a file descriptor as exclusive to itself,
> but there is still a period of time the failure can occur
> because the auto-close only occurs during the exec().
>
> One manifestation of this is a race conditions in system(), which
> (depending on the implementation) is non-atomic in that it first
> calls a fork() and then an exec().
>
> This functionality was approved by the Austin Common Standards
> Revision Group for inclusion in the next revision of the POSIX
> standard (see issue 1318 in the Austin Group Defect Tracker).
>
> ---
>
> This is v2 of the change. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/20/113
> for the original work.
>
> Thanks to everyone who provided comments on the first series of
> patches. Here are replies to specific comments:
>
> > I suggest we group the two bits of a file (close_on_exec, close_on_fork)
> > together, so that we do not have to dirty two separate cache lines.
>
> I could be mistaken, but I don't think this would improve efficiency.
> The close-on-fork and close-on-exec flags are read at different
> times. If you assume separate syscalls for fork and exec then
> there are several switches between when the two flags are read.
> In addition, the close-on-fork flags in the new process must be
> cleared, which will be much harder if the flags are interleaved.

:/

Fast path in big and performance sensitive applications is not fork()
and/or exec().

This is open()/close() and others (socket(), accept(), ...)

We do not want them to access extra cache lines for this new feature.

Sorry, I will say no to these patches in their current form.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15 15:23 [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] fs: " Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] fs: Add O_CLOFORK flag for open(2) and dup3(2) Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] fs: Add F_DUPFD_CLOFORK to fcntl(2) Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:23 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] net: Add SOCK_CLOFORK Nate Karstens
2020-05-15 15:30 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2020-05-15 15:59   ` [PATCH v2] Implement close-on-fork David Laight
2020-05-15 15:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-15 16:07   ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-15 16:25     ` James Bottomley
2020-05-15 18:28       ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-15 18:43         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-25  8:16         ` Pavel Machek
2020-05-15 16:26     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-16 13:29   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-15 16:03 ` Al Viro
2020-05-15 16:26   ` Karstens, Nate
2020-05-15 16:53   ` David Howells
2022-06-18 11:41 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-18 19:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-19 10:42     ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-28 13:13       ` Christian Brauner
2022-06-28 13:38         ` David Laight
2022-06-28 13:43           ` Christian Brauner

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