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Subject[PATCH] nextfd(2)
Currently there is no reliable way to close all opened file descriptors
(which daemons need and like to do):

* dumb close(fd) loop is slow, upper bound is unknown and
can be arbitrary large,

* /proc/self/fd is unreliable:
proc may be unconfigured or not mounted at expected place.
Looking at /proc/self/fd requires opening directory
which may not be available due to malicious rlimit drop or ENOMEM situations.
Not opening directory is equivalent to dumb close(2) loop except slower.

BSD added closefrom(fd) which is OK for this exact purpose but suboptimal
on the bigger scale. closefrom(2) does only close(2) (obviously :-)
closefrom(2) siletly ignores errors from close(2) which in theory is not OK
for userspace.

So, don't add closefrom(2), add nextfd(2).

int nextfd(int fd)

returns next opened file descriptor which is >= than fd or -1/ESRCH
if there aren't any descriptors >= than fd.

Thus closefrom(3) can be rewritten through it in userspace:

void closefrom(int fd)
{
while (1) {
fd = nextfd(fd);
if (fd == -1 && errno == ESRCH)
break;
(void)close(fd);
fd++;
}
}

Maybe it will grow other smart uses.

nextfd(2) doesn't change kernel state and thus can't fail
which is why it should go in. Other means may fail or
may not be available or require linear time with only guessed
upper boundaries (1024, getrlimit(RLIM_NOFILE), sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
fs/Makefile | 1 +
fs/nextfd.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/syscalls.h | 1 +
5 files changed, 31 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
@@ -355,3 +355,4 @@
346 i386 setns sys_setns
347 i386 process_vm_readv sys_process_vm_readv compat_sys_process_vm_readv
348 i386 process_vm_writev sys_process_vm_writev compat_sys_process_vm_writev
+349 i386 nextfd sys_nextfd
--- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@
309 common getcpu sys_getcpu
310 64 process_vm_readv sys_process_vm_readv
311 64 process_vm_writev sys_process_vm_writev
+312 64 nextfd sys_nextfd
#
# x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
# for native 64-bit operation.
--- a/fs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o super.o \
seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o \
pnode.o drop_caches.o splice.o sync.o utimes.o \
stack.o fs_struct.o statfs.o
+obj-y += nextfd.o

ifeq ($(CONFIG_BLOCK),y)
obj-y += buffer.o bio.o block_dev.o direct-io.o mpage.o ioprio.o
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/nextfd.c
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/fdtable.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+
+/* Return first opened file descriptor which is >= than the argument. */
+SYSCALL_DEFINE1(nextfd, unsigned int, fd)
+{
+ struct files_struct *files = current->files;
+ struct fdtable *fdt;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+ while (fd < fdt->max_fds) {
+ struct file *file;
+
+ file = rcu_dereference_check_fdtable(files, fdt->fd[fd]);
+ if (file) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return fd;
+ }
+ fd++;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return -ESRCH;
+}
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -857,5 +857,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_process_vm_writev(pid_t pid,
const struct iovec __user *rvec,
unsigned long riovcnt,
unsigned long flags);
+asmlinkage long sys_nextfd(unsigned int fd);

#endif

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