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SubjectRe: [PATCH 18/23] init: open code setting up stdin/stdout/stderr
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.

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