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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 14/15] fs/files: export close_fd() symbol
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 03:42:25PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com>
>
> Rename __close_fd() to close_fd() and export it to be able close files
> in modules using file descriptors.
>
> The usecase that motivates this change happens in V4L2 where we send
> events to userspace with a fd that has file installed in it. But if for
> some reason we have to cancel the video stream we need to close the files
> that haven't been shared with userspace yet. Thus the export of
> close_fd() becomes necessary.
>
> fd_install() happens when we call an ioctl to queue a buffer, but we only
> share the fd with userspace later, and that may happen in a kernel thread
> instead.

What do you mean? A file descriptor is shared with userspace as soon as it's
installed in the fdtable by fd_install(). As soon as it's there, another thread
can use it (or close it, duplicate it, etc.), even before the syscall that
installed it returns...

Eric

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